The Sword of Deborah: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Sword of Deborah, credited to F. Tennyson Jesse, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Sword of Deborah by F. Tennyson Jesse. Read in English by MaryAnn Spiegel. The Sword of Deborah contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during World War I. She writes: "I was glad to have seen all the different convoys I had, because no two had been to me alike, and to each I am indebted for a differing expression of the same vision, which is the vision splendid of a duty undertaken gladly and sustained with courage. From my first convoys -- the Fannies and the G.S.V.A.D.'s -- I got the wonderful facts of it, at the V.A.D. Convoy at E---- I caught that side of it which I as most glad of all to encounter, and at the V.A.D. Convoy at T----- I found that delightful spirit of sheer joy in danger which is too precious to be allowed to die out of the worked just because their happens to be, at present, such a great deal too much danger let loose upon it." (Summary by MaryAnn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Sword of Deborah
• Author credits: F. Tennyson Jesse
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:26:24

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• WWI
• World War 1
• France
• Red Cross
• Fanny
• british expeditionary force
• gsvad

Track guide

1. 01 - I. A.B.C, II. The Fever Chart of War — 19:02
2. 02 - III. Backgrounds, IV. My First Convoy — 19:48
3. 03 - V. Outposts\ — 21:58
4. 04 - VII. The Brown Graves, VIII. Vignettes — 19:42
5. 05 - IX. Evening, X. Night — 23:34
6. 06 - XI. And the Bright Eyes of Danger, XII. Rest — 22:32
7. 07 - XIII. General Servants and a General Question, XIV. Notes and Queries — 19:48

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