This project is complete! All audio files are available on our catalog page:
https://librivox.org/bullets-billets-by-bruce-bairnsfather/
Volunteers outside the USA: Bruce Bairnsfather died in 1959. His work is still protected by copyright in places like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, and Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1954).A front line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, whose Alf, Bert, and Old Bill, were forerunners to Bill Mauldin and his Willie and Joe in World War 2. This volume traces Bairnsfather's service as a Machine Gun officer from its inception until he was removed from the battlefield by the intense shelling during the Second Battle of Ypres (April 1915). It is told with a wry, ironic, grim humor often possessed by those who have endured shells, bullets, floods, mud, bully beef, maconochie, and a surfeit of plum and apple jam. His participation in the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 (for which he was investigated in view of a court-martial) is documented as well as the horrors of war at close quarters. (Dr. P. Gould)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11232
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Magic Window:
BC Admin - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Chapter [number] of Bullets & Billets. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Bullets & Billets, by Bruce Bairnsfather. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [number] of Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Bullets & Billets, by Bruce Bairnsfather. "
There should be about 5 seconds' silence at the end of the recording. - Example filename bulletsbillets_##_bairnsfather_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. bulletsbillets_01_bairnsfather_128kb.mp3)
Transfer of files (completed recordings)
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