Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
Author(s): Mary Roberts Rinehart
Genre(s): War & Military, Memoirs
Narrators: Mary In Arkansas, MaryAnn, Marla Welker, Denise Nordell, Pamela Nagami, James K. White, Gnomesb, BettyB, Geoff Blanchard, Fzarate, Sarah Jennings, Kathleen Moore
Number of Chapters: 38
Length: 10 hours and 26 minutes
Language: English
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.)