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Kings Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrator LibriVox Community

Publisher: LibriVox

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Summary

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.)
Duration: about 10 hours (10:27:01)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1915. Copyright Statment: —