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Tales of War

Lord Dunsany (1878 - 1957)

Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at times grim and grounded but also at times eerie and fantastical. Summary by Ben Tucker.

Genre(s): War & Military Fiction, Fantasy Fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood	Ben Tucker	00:12:33
Play 02	The Road	Ben Tucker	00:05:02
Play 03	An Imperial Monument	Ben Tucker	00:05:03
Play 04	A Walk to the Trenches	Ben Tucker	00:05:10
Play 05	A Walk in Picardy	Ben Tucker	00:04:38
Play 06	What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh	Ben Tucker	00:05:56
Play 07	Standing To	Ben Tucker	00:02:55
Play 08	The Splendid Traveller	Ben Tucker	00:07:44
Play 09	Shells	Ben Tucker	00:05:22
Play 10	Two Degrees of Envy	Ben Tucker	00:03:48
Play 11	The Master of No Man’s Land	Ben Tucker	00:02:59
Play 12	Weeds and Wire	Ben Tucker	00:03:34
Play 13	Spring in England and Flanders	Ben Tucker	00:03:39
Play 14	The Nightmare Countries	Ben Tucker	00:04:46
Play 15	Spring and the Kaiser	Ben Tucker	00:02:53
Play 16	Two Songs	Ben Tucker	00:03:10
Play 17	The Punishment	Ben Tucker	00:07:59
Play 18	The English Spirit	Ben Tucker	00:05:35
Play 19	An Investigation Into the Causes and Origin of the War	Ben Tucker	00:07:23
Play 20	Lost	Ben Tucker	00:03:56
Play 21	The Last Mirage	Ben Tucker	00:04:33
Play 22	A Famous Man	Ben Tucker	00:04:47
Play 23	The Oases of Death	Ben Tucker	00:02:16
Play 24	Anglo-Saxon Tyranny	Ben Tucker	00:04:56
Play 25	Memories	Ben Tucker	00:04:41
Play 26	The Movement	Ben Tucker	00:05:37
Play 27	Nature’s Cad	Ben Tucker	00:06:26
Play 28	The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser	Ben Tucker	00:07:10
Play 29	A Deed of Mercy	Ben Tucker	00:04:30
Play 30	Last Scene of All	Ben Tucker	00:04:29
Play 31	Old England	Ben Tucker	00:04:43

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