A Soldier's Diary
Ralph Scott
Read by David Wales
This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of the brutal fighting in the last year of the war. - Summary by David Wales (3 hr 4 min)
Chapters
Preface and Kipling Verse | 4:13 | Read by David Wales |
Part 1 1918 April 23 - June 11 | 25:33 | Read by David Wales |
Part 2 1918 June 12 - July 14 | 28:13 | Read by David Wales |
Part 3 1918 July 15 - August 12 | 27:43 | Read by David Wales |
Part 4 1918 August 13 - September 15 | 27:55 | Read by David Wales |
Part 5 1918 September 16 - October 13 | 31:03 | Read by David Wales |
Part 6 1918 October 14 - November 11; Afterword | 40:10 | Read by David Wales |
Reviews
David Brown
brilliant narration The final paragraph tells all of man's ignorance, and the authors sad,predictable vision of it happening all over again