Tales of War
Lord Dunsany
Read by Ben Tucker
Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at times grim and grounded but also at times eerie and fantastical. Summary by Ben Tucker. (2 hr 38 min)
Chapters
The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood | 12:33 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Road | 5:02 | Read by Ben Tucker |
An Imperial Monument | 5:03 | Read by Ben Tucker |
A Walk to the Trenches | 5:10 | Read by Ben Tucker |
A Walk in Picardy | 4:38 | Read by Ben Tucker |
What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh | 5:56 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Standing To | 2:55 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Splendid Traveller | 7:44 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Shells | 5:22 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Two Degrees of Envy | 3:48 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Master of No Man’s Land | 2:59 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Weeds and Wire | 3:34 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Spring in England and Flanders | 3:39 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Nightmare Countries | 4:46 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Spring and the Kaiser | 2:53 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Two Songs | 3:10 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Punishment | 7:59 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The English Spirit | 5:35 | Read by Ben Tucker |
An Investigation Into the Causes and Origin of the War | 7:23 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Lost | 3:56 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Last Mirage | 4:33 | Read by Ben Tucker |
A Famous Man | 4:47 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Oases of Death | 2:16 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Anglo-Saxon Tyranny | 4:56 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Memories | 4:41 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Movement | 5:37 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Nature’s Cad | 6:26 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser | 7:10 | Read by Ben Tucker |
A Deed of Mercy | 4:30 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Last Scene of All | 4:29 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Old England | 4:43 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Reviews
great reader, stories from great to Eh
Patrick Richardson
Well read. FYI, these are not historical fiction. They are short stories ranging from mediocre to quite interesting. Your tastes may vary. Try it out - very few are the same.
Jerry Farrow
Some wonderful stories very thoughtful. JKF