The Secret Service: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Secret Service by Albert Richardson: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 49 original MP3 tracks, 16:19:45 running time and a link to listen.
The Secret Service, credited to Albert Richardson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Secret Service by Albert Richardson. Read in English by Maria Kasper; Greg Giordano Albert Richardson was a reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune when he volunteered to hazard an undercover journey through the American south, reporting incognito on the growing secession crisis in that region. With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, he attached himself to the Union armies as a war correspondent, sending dispatches from the fields of battle for the next two years. Then, in May 1863, while attempting to pass a Confederate battery outside Vicksburg, Richardson found himself thrown from a burning barge into the Mississippi River, swimming for his life with a squad of Union soldiers and several other reporters. Captured as a prisoner, he was at first confident that as a civilian newspaperman he would be quickly exchanged. Instead, he was to spend the next 18 months in various prisoner of war camps. Seizing at last an opportunity for escape, he set out to cross the snowy Appalachians in the dead of winter, heading for Union lines in Tennessee, assisted by a secret network of slaves, Unionists, and bushwhackers. Albert Richardson’s own personal memoir of his wartime adventures, published in 1865, offers readers a rousing historical narrative presented with a journalist’s eye for detail. (Summary by Maria Kasper)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Secret Service
- Author credits: Albert Richardson
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 49
- Listed recording duration: 16:19:45
Catalogue topics
- prisoner of war
- civil war
- war correspondents
Opening tracks: first 24 of 49
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 26:34
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 23:36
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 30:19
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 26:36
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 20:10
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 21:10
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 27:12
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 40:25
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 31:11
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 20:19
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 12:43
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 32:24
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 16:08
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 18:48
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 21:46
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 28:45
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 24:09
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 18:15
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 14:53
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 8:02
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 22:03
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 32:19
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 26:01
- 24 - Chapter 24 — 24:58
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