Short Stories of the Great War

The First World War in Short Fiction

By: John Buchan, Sapper, Stacy Aumonier, Katherine Mansfield, F. Britten Austin, H. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

A fascinating collection of short stories by great writers that examine aspects of the first world war, from action in the trenches, to the psychological impact of war on individuals and their relationships, to heroic adventure stories, to ghosts and war graves. A wonderful collection!

• "The King of Ypres", by John Buchan
• "War", by Sherwood Anderson
• "A Source of Irritation", by Stacy Aumonier
• "American Sir!", by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• "England, my England!", By D. H. Lawrence
• "The Brothers", by Stacy Aumonier
• "Two Submarines from Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book"
• "The Greater Battle", by Edgar Wallace
• "When I Was Wounded at Chocolate Hill", by H. W. Nevinson
• "The Truce of the Bear", by Sapper
• "The Fly", by Katherine Mansfield
• "Panzerkraftwagen", by F. Britten Austin

Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks

Worst narrator ever!

I really wanted to listen to these stories. But the narrator was so amazingly un-listenable I had to give up. Every line issued as a snobbish declarative. I could not endure it.