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This is the fourth of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in during 1917, when Germany is reorganizing and Russia is about to fall. Buchan continues to give us a comprehensive war history that provides a clear understanding of the complexities that are involved without feeling bogged down. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)
https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwa04buch/page/n3/mode/2up (As this is an image-based source, you will find a link in your section’s note box that will take you straight to your starting point.)
We are not reading the chapter tables of content. Please go straight to the text after the chapter title.
We are reading the footnotes that hold interesting information, but not the ones that are purely source citations. To do so, at the end of the sentence a footnote is attached to, you would modulate your voice a bit for an aside, and say: “Footnote. Yadda, yadda, interesting stuff according to your opinion… End Footnote.” Then continue with the main text.
Paul kindly offered these tidbits for us who like to try authentic pronunciation and historic convention:
- The author's name is pronounced "buck - 'n" not "byoo - c'n."
- Derby = dar - bee
- Derbyshire = dar - bi - sher (When 'shire' is on the end of the name of a shire, it is pronounced 'sher,' not 'shy - er')
- Lieutenant = lef - tenant (Yeah, I know this one doesn't make sense.)
- £1,600,000,000. I plan to say this figure as "one thousand six hundred million pounds" according to the way a billion would have been calculated in Britain at that time
- Old British money was L = pounds, S = shillings, and D = pence. 3s 6d is said as "three shillings and six pence."
- cwt. / cwts.' is read as 'hundredweight / hundredweights.
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[*]Project Code: dRYPnFG1
[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan (John Buchan)
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[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 43
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: No
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1923
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/War & Military; *Non-fiction/History
Keywords that describe the book: World War I, WWI, Stockholm Conference, Michaelis, Reichstag Resolution, Kuhlmann’s Policy, Petain’s Policy, Aisne, Moronvillers, Guillaumat, Brussilov’s Offensive, Kornilov, Rumania, Austria, Moscow Conference, Riga, Bolshevik, Kerenski Government, Lenin, Trotski, Russian Revolution, Verdun, Caporetto, Piave, Turin Riots, Army, Tagliamento, livenza, Conference of Rapallo, Fall of Jerusalem, Tekrit, Ramadie, Sir Stanley Maude, Palentine, Beersheba, Gaza, Jaffa, Cambrai, tanks, Bourlon, counter-attack, battle, East Africa, General Smuts, Kilimanjaro, Kondoa Irangi, Tanga, Kilossa, Dar-es-Salaam, Hoskins, Deventer, Armistice, Brest Litovsk Conference, Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine, Finland, Brest Litovsk Treaty, Central Powers, Allies, war aims, League of Nations, Wilson’s Fourteen Points, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Lord Lansdowne, War Cabinet, Versailles Council, Somme Ludendorff, Arras, Battle of the Lys, Bailleul, Messines Ridge, Mont Kemmel, Australia, Zeebrugge, Ostend, submarine warfare, Battle of the Aisne, Marne, Rheims, Ourcq, Lassigny Hills, Hoetzendorff, Asiago, Foch, Maurice Debate, assassination, Siberia, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Germany, Baku, Kuhlmann, Vesle, Battle of Amiens, Battle of Albret, Battle of Bapaume, Peronne, Hindenburg Line, St. Mihiel Salient, Final Effort, Bulgaria, Balkans, Serbia Prilep, Greece, Jordan, Summer Stagnation, Damascus, Aleppo, Bagdad, Meuse, Belgian Advance, Fall of Cambrai, Prince Max, Peace Negotiations, President Wilson, Line of the Selle, Le Cateau, Battle of the Rivers, democratic government, Piave Front, Battle of Vittorio-Veneto, Capitulation of Austria, Fall of the Hapsburgs, Valenciennes, Gouraud, Pershing, Mormal Forest, German Emperor, Mutiny, Peace Delegation, Ghent, Sedan, peace terms, Mons, Alace-Lorraine, Rhine, Cologne, Allied Victory, Internationalism, Reconstruction, terms of armistice
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
We are not reading the chapter tables of content. Please go straight to the text after the chapter title."Section # of A History of the Great War, Volume 4: The Great Sallies (continued) and The Surrender. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "A History of the Great War, Volume 4, by John Buchan. (This is pronounced "buck - 'n") Chapter Title for that section (Example: Chapter 83: Germany Reshuffles Her Cards, part 1)."
We are reading the footnotes that hold interesting information, but not the ones that are purely source citations.
End of recording:
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of chapter #." (Example: "End of Chapter 83, part 1.) [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of A History of the Great War, Volume 4.
End of A History of the Great War, by John Buchan."
Filename: historygreatwar4_##_buchan_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. historygreatwar4_01_buchan_128kb.mp3) *Note that this is different than the chapter number.
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