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

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - War & Military, Memoirs

Authors: Mary Roberts Rinehart In Year : 1915

Book Language: English

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For King and Country
Taking a Chance
'Somewhere in France'
La Panne
' 'Twas a Famous Victory '
A Talk with the King of the Belgians
The Cause
The Story with an End
The Night Raid on Dunkirk
No Man's Land
The Iron Division
At the House of the Barrier
Night in the Trenches
'Wipers'
Lady Decie's Story
Running the Blockade
The Man of Ypres
In the Line of the 'Mitrailleuse'
French Guns in Action
'I Nibble Them'
Dunkirk: From my Journal
Tea with the Air-Fighters
The Women at the Front
The Little 'Sick and Sorry' House
Flight
Volunteers and Patriots
A Luncheon at British Headquarters
A Strange Party
Sir John French
Along the Great Bethune Road
The Military Secret
Queen Mary of England
The Queen of The Belgians
The Red Badge of Mercy
In Terms of Life and Death
The Losing Game
How Americans Can Help
An Army of Children

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.)