The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War, credited to Horatio W. Dresser, 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 World’s Story Volume XV: The World War by Horatio W. Dresser. Read in English by Sonia; Ezwa; Devorah Allen; Wayne Cooke; April6090; KuyaCarrot; atelo ; Colleen McMahon; Tomas Peter; Jim Locke; BettyB; janop; Alan Mapstone; akatsu; EmilioC; Piotr Nater; Brittany Bogle; Tim811; KevinS; Alan Dove; ToddHW; Heather Eney This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. Dresser (1866-1954) deals exclusively with the time of the First World War, the events leading up to it, the battles and war engines, the political and diplomatic background endeavours and the cost - human and monetary - of this War. - Summary by Sonia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War
• Author credits: Horatio W. Dresser
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 92
• Listed recording duration: 15:44:19

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• Europe
• revolution
• battles
• military
• trenches
• soldiers
• military engines

Opening tracks: first 24 of 92

1. 01 - The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece — 2:56
2. 02 - The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note — 2:33
3. 03 - The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton — 13:09
4. 04 - Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure — 8:13
5. 05 - Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren — 7:34
6. 06 - The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot — 13:36
7. 07 - Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson — 6:10
8. 08 - The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note — 3:11
9. 09 - The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall — 13:07
10. 10 - The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay — 9:03
11. 11 - En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall — 16:29
12. 12 - The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke — 6:14
13. 13 - The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note — 2:47
14. 14 - The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer — 12:35
15. 15 - A gas attack, photograph p. 62 — 2:26
16. 16 - The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton — 21:51
17. 17 - The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green — 18:02
18. 18 - A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke — 12:17
19. 19 - The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay — 14:53
20. 20 - Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100 — 2:27
21. 21 - The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae — 21:03
22. 22 - The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note — 2:42
23. 23 - The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard — 24:14
24. 24 - The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134 — 3:02

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