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While most associate the "Great War" with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas, ships played roles in the military at the beginning of the 20th century. Stories of the Ships is a 1919 collection of accounts described in the first person by those who fought battles on the sea during World War I. It gives the listener a more complete account of the conflicts that defined the most costly war in history. Lewis Ransome Freeman (1878 – 1960) was an American explorer, journalist and war correspondent who wrote over twenty books chronicling his many travels, as well as numerous articles. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1917-18. He was a correspondent attached to the Grand Fleet late in the war, and was a staff member for the Inter-Allied Naval Armistice Commission which traveled to Germany in 1918. ( Jeffery Smith,David Wales, and Wikipedia)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42604
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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BC Admin
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/War & Military; *Non-fiction/History /Modern (20th C)
Keywords that describe the book: ships, WWI, war, military, navy
============================================ - 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 Stories of the Ships. 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:
"Stories of the Ships, by Lewis Freeman. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [number] of Stories of the Ships by Lewis Freeman. 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 Stories of the Ships, by Lewis Freeman. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording. - Example filename storiesoftheships_##_freeman_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. storiesoftheships_01_freeman_128kb.mp3)
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