Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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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.) (10 hr 26 min)
Chapters
| For King and Country | 4:26 | Read by Mary in Arkansas |
| Taking a Chance | 27:01 | Read by Mary in Arkansas |
| 'Somewhere in France' | 15:59 | Read by MaryAnn |
| La Panne | 12:41 | Read by MaryAnn |
| ' 'Twas a Famous Victory ' | 23:11 | Read by Marla Welker |
| A Talk with the King of the Belgians | 23:42 | Read by Marla Welker |
| The Cause | 15:14 | Read by Mary in Arkansas |
| The Story with an End | 12:36 | Read by Denise Nordell |
| The Night Raid on Dunkirk | 9:34 | Read by Denise Nordell |
| No Man's Land | 22:44 | Read by MaryAnn |
| The Iron Division | 22:19 | Read by Mary in Arkansas |
| At the House of the Barrier | 13:46 | Read by Pamela Nagami |
| Night in the Trenches | 22:59 | Read by James K. White |
| 'Wipers' | 29:30 | Read by MaryAnn |
| Lady Decie's Story | 19:29 | Read by Gnomesb |
| Running the Blockade | 21:32 | Read by BettyB |
| The Man of Ypres | 23:16 | Read by Pamela Nagami |
| In the Line of the 'Mitrailleuse' | 17:00 | Read by Pamela Nagami |
| French Guns in Action | 22:06 | Read by James K. White |
| 'I Nibble Them' | 7:18 | Read by Geoff Blanchard |
| Dunkirk: From my Journal | 5:22 | Read by Geoff Blanchard |
| Tea with the Air-Fighters | 15:21 | Read by fzarate |
| The Women at the Front | 12:21 | Read by Geoff Blanchard |
| The Little 'Sick and Sorry' House | 15:16 | Read by Sarah Jennings |
| Flight | 11:40 | Read by Sarah Jennings |
| Volunteers and Patriots | 7:44 | Read by BettyB |
| A Luncheon at British Headquarters | 18:57 | Read by BettyB |
| A Strange Party | 11:19 | Read by BettyB |
| Sir John French | 12:47 | Read by BettyB |
| Along the Great Bethune Road | 15:45 | Read by BettyB |
| The Military Secret | 12:37 | Read by BettyB |
| Queen Mary of England | 27:00 | Read by Gnomesb |
| The Queen of The Belgians | 20:12 | Read by BettyB |
| The Red Badge of Mercy | 17:45 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| In Terms of Life and Death | 8:58 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| The Losing Game | 19:09 | Read by BettyB |
| How Americans Can Help | 15:00 | Read by BettyB |
| An Army of Children | 13:22 | Read by BettyB |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
Very good story. Kept my interest all the way. Now onto another Rinehart book.
A very good view of the war and an interesting read
Catherine, England
kam
A LibriVox Listener
absolutely powerful in its content and inspiringly written.