Lives & Memoirs
Over the Top
Arthur Guy Empey
1917
7h 5m
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Arthur Guy Empey, an American who crossed the ocean to fight with the British before his own country joined the war, gives a vivid, slangy account of trench life on the Western Front. Raids, mud, and machine guns fill his pages. A bracing firsthand read for anyone drawn to the soldier's Great War.
Inside this audiobook
16 chapters
- 1: Dedication, Foreword, and Glossary 147m
- 2: Glossary Part 242m
- 3: Ch. 1 - From Mufti to Khaki; Ch. 2 - Blighty to Reat Billets29m
- 4: Ch. 3 - I Go to Church; Ch. 4 - Into the Trench11m
- 5: Ch. 5 - Mud, Rats, and Shells; Ch. 6 - Back of the Line15m
- 6: Ch. 7 - Rations; Ch. 8 - The Little Wooden Cross17m
- 7: Ch. 9 - Suicide Annex; Ch. 10 - The Day's Work11m
- 8: Ch. 11 - Over the Top; Ch. 12 - Bombing22m
- 9: Ch. 13 - My First Official Bath; Ch. 14 - Picks and Shovels19m
- 10: Ch. 15 - Listening Post; Ch. 16 - Battery D23835m
- 11: Ch. 17 - Out in Front; Ch. 18 - Staged Under Fire 19 - On His Own32m
- 12: Ch. 20 - Chats With Fritz; Ch. 21 - About Turn22m
- 13: Ch. 22 - Punishments & Machine-gun Stunts; Ch. 23 - Gas Attacks & Spies32m
- 14: Ch. 24 - The Firing Squad36m
- 15: Ch. 25 - Preparing for the Big Push; Ch. 26 - All Quiet ? On the Western Front33m
- 16: Ch. 27 - Blighty24m
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