All Else Is Folly
Peregrine Acland
Read by KevinS
This novel, published in 1929, more than a decade after the close of the First World War, is an insightful and disturbing view of a Canadian officer's experiences both at war and during his painful recovery from serious wounds suffered on the Somme battlefield. Described here, also, is the man's love for a young English woman whose husband is a prisoner-of-war in Germany. Not surprisingly, the subtitle of Mr. Acland's novel is 'A tale of war and passion.' Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden remarked of the novel: "No more vivid picture has been painted of what war meant to the average soldier." - Summary by KevinS (6 hr 47 min)
Chapters
| Dedication and Preface | 9:29 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 1 | 30:43 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 2 | 6:37 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 3 | 15:04 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 4 | 5:26 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 5 | 14:21 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 6 | 7:18 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 7 | 4:11 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 8 | 9:05 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 9 | 5:34 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 10 | 10:54 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 11 | 10:44 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 12 | 8:39 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 13 | 23:57 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 14 | 42:59 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 1, Chapter 15 | 42:58 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 2, Chapter 1 | 28:02 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 2, Chapter 2 | 15:46 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 2, Chapter 3 | 25:10 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 2, Chapter 4 | 44:40 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 3, Chapter 1 | 22:27 | Read by KevinS |
| Part 3, Chapter 2 and Epilogue | 22:46 | Read by KevinS |