WORLD WAR 1 Somme Battle Stories by Alec John Dawson Unabridged audiobook FAB
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- WORLD WAR 1 - Somme Battle Stories by Alec John DAWSON (1872 - 1951). Unabridged audiobook. FAB
Stories of World War I warfare, published in 1916 in the midst of the war. (That's why names of persons and units are literally "blanked" out.)
Alec John Dawson (1872 - 1951), generally known as A. J. Dawson (pseudonyms Major Dawson, Howard Kerr, Nicholas Freydon) was an English author, traveller and novelist. During World War I he attained the rank of Major, and was awarded the MBE and Croix de Guerre in recognition of his work as a military propagandist, a work the listener may want to keep in mind. (Terminology note: "Boche" means the Germans, singular or plural; "Blighty" means hospitalization in England; "The Push" means fighting in the Somme offensive.)
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the River Somme in France.
The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.... 1 July 1916 was also the worst day in the history of British Army, which had c. 60,000 casualties,... The British Army on the Somme was a mixture of the remains of the pre-war regular army, Territorial Force and the Kitchener Army which was composed of Pals battalions, recruited from the same places and occupations, whose losses had a profound social impact in Britain....
The Battle of the Somme has been called the beginning of modern all-arms warfare, during which Kitchener's Army learned to fight the mass-industrial war, which the continental armies had been engaged in for two years. This view sees the British contribution to the battle as part of a coalition war and part of a process, which took the strategic initiative from the German Army and caused it irreparable damage, leading to its collapse in late 1918.
(Summary adapted from Wikipedia, Battle Of The Somme and David Wales)
Time Chapter
0:00:00 Chapter 1 "What It's Like" In The Push
0:15:41 Chapter 2 The Spirit Of The British Soldier
0:26:42 Chapter 3 The Moral Of The Boche
0:38:03 Chapter 4 An Irish Officer Describes The Indescribable
0:47:42 Chapter 5 Close Quarters
0:56:35 Chapter 6 The Devil's Wood
1:06:46 Chapter 7 The Cockney Fighter
1:15:43 Chapter 8 "We Don't Count Wounds In My Regiment"
1:23:46 Chapter 9 A Reverend Corporal
1:33:40 Chapter 10 Brothers Of The Parsonage
1:43:44 Chapter 11 The Australian As A Fighter
1:51:22 Chapter 12 News For The O.C. Company At Home
2:00:39 Chapter 13 "Stickfast" And His Officer
2:09:55 Chapter 14 A Cool Canadian
2:19:37 Chapter 15 The Hospital Mail-bags
2:30:05 Chapter 16 The Difference
2:38:27 Chapter 17 What Every M.O. Knows
2:47:19 Chapter 18 The South African
2:53:46 Chapter 19 "It's A Great Do"
3:02:08 Chapter 20 On The Way To London
Read by David Wales
Sources from Librivox
The Irishman in chapter three had such a unique, honest and deep perspective. I've never heard it put that way before.
"Trying to describe the war is like trying to describe everything." He sounds like the kind of man that would have been a great inspiration to the men around him.
I really enjoyed this book and the guy reading it. I am a police officer and like to listen to historical audiobook on patrol. I am always grateful to find them. A little audiobook tip. I normally to them at 2x the speed of at least .25x. I find it is easier to read slower but nicer to listen faster
Everyday we see new videos of innocnet unarmed people being executed by police...
The way police officers conduct themselves these days I'm surprised you can admit to being a police officer Without Shame..
Policing for profit.
Imprisonment for profit.
Civil asset forfeiture.
Did I make it back home from war to be murdered in the street by police for sticking up for my rights.
Police officers don't fix, balance, help, or do anything positive when it comes to the people.
@@greghunt3790 I understand your point of view and in my years on the job I have met a few officers who I did not think belonged in law enforcement for a number of reasons from just laziness to being on power trips. However, this is no different than any other job and departments do not put up with it. Out of those officer's only one of them is still working as an officer. ( And that is one of the lazy guys who does nothing :p).
I'm sorry you feel police do not do any good, but honestly that just tells me you genuinely do not know what police do. In the last months I have helped a number of young people escape from sexual slavery and helped to prosecute their enslavers/ adult clients. I have talked individuals in my community having mental health crisis out of taking their lives. I have helped victims of domestic abuse start new lives and find justice. I have had to tell way too many mothers that their children have died of drug overdoses and have worked to prosecute those who are selling fentanyl on the streets. I have also been their for the families and aftermath of senseless kills and active shooters. And to top it all off I have had to hold the children of officers killed in the line of duty along side the children of officers who could not take everything they have seen who took their own life.
I don't say all this to Pat myself on the back, but to make the point that I am proud to be a police officer. You want to talk about slavery 200 years ago. Police free slaves today. You want to talk about coming home from war. Police help the men and woman who mentally never came home from it. You want to talk about police gunning down black and drown members of our community. I have to look into the eyes of black and brown people every day who's children were gunned down from out of control black on black crime rates. I have seen my community at it's worst and at its best. I cry with it, bleed with it, and I am there for it when everyone else is safely in their beds. What was the last thing you did for your neighbor when they were hurting? Can you even tell me when or what it was they were hurting from?
Also, enjoy the book. It was a great listen and highlights mankind's capability for great good and great evil. I have had the privilege of interview a number of WW2 veterans over the years and always appreciate their stories.
@@EnieT You set yourself apart. Such a reply shows a soul.
@@greghunt3790 I really don't set myself apart though. I'm a pretty avarage cop at the end of the day. 99% of us really love our communities and would (and at times do) give our lives for them. It's just that the media constantly highlights the s***** 1%.
We had a teacher arrested for having sex with small children in our jurisdiction last month. He was a disgusting conniving bastard, but that doesn't mean teachers are terrible people. It means that one teacher was. In the same way. Most law enforcement are doing are best.
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I feel stupid
God bless stay safe.
An amazing piece of history.
Great stories, but I found the narrative to be a bit suspiciously one sided. Always going on about how great their own men were and how the Germans just had the better machines etc. I liked it, but I get suspicious when things start to sounds like wartime propaganda.
One thing I really like was the part where they talked about morale. It was very interesting to hear them speak about how their morale was so much better than the Germans, although they lost more men.
I just finished a book written by a German ww1 veteran frontline officer (who was wounded and got back into the fight 6 times): Storm of steel, by Ernst Jünger.
He really explained this same point, but with more understanding.
He said something like this: the ideal fighting force is a bunch of fresh 20 year old recruits, led by an experienced officer.
War eats away the nerves and the constant rotations of 2 hours of sleep destroyed the fighting spirit better than artillery fire.
Or something along these lines. The English army was fresh and young and hadn't had the time to get worn down yet. But they had very experienced and professional soldiers to lead them on.
Combat fatigue is a real thing, wearing veterans down until the constant acts of bravery get harder and harder.
Can you imagine jumping into enemy trench while your comrades shout "stick'em!" Or being left behind and injured badly , alone in your trench while the enemy soldiers are bayoneting your lads? It's scary man.
Kimchiboy08 The whole concept of mass numbers of men fighting to the death with no mercy and terrifying weapons is scary.
When men were real men
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@@briantalbot394 rather, when men were animals
Thanks for the reading, i found it interesting to hear the first hand accounts.
Thanks for your comment sfjp1. We believe it's important to help keep history alive. FAB
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I am Peter Thompson and I have never posted a comment on UA-cam!
Peter Thompson keep working on it
Well done
And you never will... mwahahahaha
What am i reading now then.
Excellent narration...
Thank you for giving us this very great investment of time and attention.
Thanks for the upload.
Thank you. Well done.
+martin enoch Thanks for your comments Martin. FAB
Some of comments on here are a bit harsh, thanks for the video I stuck my headphones in and went to bed listening, drifted off, tonight I will pick up where I left off :)
The reader isn't the most expressive, but it's interesting so far
Thanks for the reading
Might want to hire a different reader. Feels like a struggle and hard to follow.
Its public domain genius. Thats y its up here. ...that goes for the other 25 geniuses who thumbed this up too.
I don't think he actually meant the word Hire literally. Probably only meant a different reader or narrator should have been used.
My granddad Tom was wounded at the battle of Somme having a steel plate put in head convalesced in North france for three months and returned to duty fighting in all the great battles and being a professional soldier he served 4 years on the western front was medically discharged from the army in 1919 as unfit for duty because injuries sustained at the Somme what a great government we had he was ok to fight at Passchendaele but not good enough to stand in the naafi queue after the war my granddad Harry also a professional soldier served four years on the western front both never spoke of there experience my father before he died found there service records the one thing my father did tell me both loved and respected haig and both hated Churchill fyi when I say professional soldiers they didn’t join because of war it’s what my family as always done leave school join the army
Governments never care for their subjects aka "the citizen".
What’s with all the blank blanks ? First 3 minutes
THANKS FOR THIS... any more...?
Jolly good, thak you
Is this recording in the public domain?
The accounts from the Germans of how the Irish fought are absolutely amazing the German respected and feared them hair raising stuff
PLEASE get someone competent to read it...Please...
DIY if you can do better
@@Bruno-cw6cb I don't own the rights,
Take a shot every time he says sir or blank
Wouldn’t reccomend tried to use this at sleep but it sounded like a robot and I made it 9 minutes in until I cracked and turned it off
set speed 1.25..
Read by c3-po
What's all the blank blank about?
The book was published during the war so they had to blank out any information that could be used by the other side.
God damn it I'm sure this is good but I can even barely hear it on my headphones driving down the road.
I'll listen to it later on speakers or something
Your voice is a bit monotonous. After a while, it's just a rumbling and the words fly by...
Your effort is appreciated, but it sounds like you needed to cough the whole time through...
May we please nota that PTSD was a thing back then.
Shellshock.
Story 7 is the best: the Somme.
I have to wonder if this was a distant relative of mine.....
ya know!
hey they share a name with me!
"That beer was good, though it was German..." lol
The porridge 😊😊🇬🇧🇬🇧 couldn’t blow his whistle because it’s full of mud 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Is this a robot speaking? Jesus Christ
18:19
Absolutely no emotion in he's voice whatsoever, it appears to me that he actually finds it funny on occasions
i thought the reader wasn't suitable for the material.....he sounds like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth and he just came from a tea party with carrot cake and double cream.
I made it 12 mins before this goon finally sapped my will to live.
I’ve heard dyslexic 5 year olds read more convincingly.
Unbelievable.
Oh shut up man
@@smokingunstudios6474 why should he?
Easy to criticise.
What have you ever done Doug? Nothing I bet ... other than inflate your own ego...
Painful. Won his "Medals " as a "military propagandist " while using 5+ aliases. Fiction, milked from real soldiers. Awful.
Reader is not the go...shame
Did the War office write this book as a propaganda device?
This narrator lied on his resume
Dreadful voice - avoid this at all cost
Is it a robot. Rubbish reading, very bad
the story may be worth hearing but the reading is crap, this guy just drones on and fails to keep your attention, blank blank.
I’m American and it’s 2021 and I still don’t like Germans for what they did to my British cousins on July 1, 1916.
Yeah... we machine gunned the eff out of them :-)
Yes. You did. Then the Americans came in and sent you back to Berlin with your tail between your legs. Then you all started following Hitler. What in the world were the Germans thinking?
@@jiveassturkey8849 Just stop, you're oversimplifying things. Germany had been in the war for over 5 years before the USA entered. WWI was a war of attrition and Germany more then held there own against their adversaries, before a late entry U.S. joined the conflict to further tip the scale.
Be careful
I've read English, French (Under Fire) & German (All Quiet on the Western Front).
Ordinary soldiers, ordinary people- xxxxing heroes most of them - whatever side.
Kept forgetting All Quiet on Western Front was German not English as I read English translation
propoganda..read with pounds of salt
Amazing book! Horrible voice.