Over the Top by Arthur Empey ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Over the Top by Arthur Empey audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey, an American who volunteered to serve with the British Army in World War I, gives a direct, ground-level account of life and fighting on the Western Front. Writing with a mix of blunt realism and soldier humor, Empey brings listeners into the trenches: the mud and cold, the constant danger from shells and snipers, the tense night watches, and the sudden, terrifying rush of going 'over the top' into No Man's Land. Along the way he introduces the routines and improvisations that kept men alive, from digging and wiring parties to coping with gas attacks and navigating the maze of dugouts and communication trenches. The book also functions as a practical guide to the slang, equipment, and unwritten rules of trench warfare, translating the daily experience of infantrymen for readers far from the front. More than a battlefield chronicle, it is a portrait of comradeship under pressure and a window into how ordinary soldiers endured extraordinary conditions, one shift, one raid, and one attack at a time.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:47:19) Chapter 02

(01:28:59) Chapter 03

(01:58:23) Chapter 04

(02:08:55) Chapter 05

(02:23:51) Chapter 06

(02:40:30) Chapter 07

(02:51:10) Chapter 08

(03:13:14) Chapter 09

(03:31:56) Chapter 10

(04:06:43) Chapter 11

(04:38:31) Chapter 12

(05:00:05) Chapter 13

(05:31:38) Chapter 14

(06:07:29) Chapter 15

(06:40:54) Chapter 16

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