Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall audiobook.

Genre: biography

In 1914, as Europe slides into war, young American James Norman Hall makes an impulsive decision that will reshape his life: he crosses the Atlantic to enlist in the British Army. Thrown into the swelling ranks of Kitchener's New Army - the citizen volunteers nicknamed 'Kitchener's Mob' - Hall moves from recruiting offices and drilling grounds to the hard routine of camps, transport, and finally the grim logic of the Western Front. With a reporter's eye and a soldier's growing awareness, he captures the odd mix of comedy and terror that defines military life: the bureaucratic tangles, the relentless marching, the small kindnesses between strangers, and the sudden, intimate dangers of trench warfare. As he learns to live by orders, luck, and loyalty to the men beside him, Hall also wrestles with what it means to fight for a country that is not his own. Part memoir, part battlefield sketchbook, this vivid account explores courage, disillusionment, and the thin line between adventure and catastrophe in the first years of World War I.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:48) Chapter 02

(00:17:56) Chapter 03

(00:44:59) Chapter 04

(01:04:07) Chapter 05

(01:20:45) Chapter 06

(01:48:23) Chapter 07

(02:08:03) Chapter 08

(02:32:40) Chapter 09

(02:49:45) Chapter 10

(03:29:00) Chapter 11

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