Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

About this film

LibriVox recording of Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: "War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of battle. It is much more than that. War is a boy carried on a stretcher, looking up at God's blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been wounded by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, torn, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in icy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorosa for the son she has given. For King and Country!" (Summary by MaryAnn and M.R.R.) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook Part 1 (146MB) M4B Audiobook Part…

Directors & creators

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;WW I; western front

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