Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer

An Epic Tale of Courage and Conflict in the Boer WarBy George Manville Fenn
Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices
Length12h 49m

About this audiobook

In "Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer," George Manville Fenn presents a gripping narrative set against the backdrop of the Second Boer War, vividly capturing the complexities of colonial conflict and the human spirit. Fenn employs an adventurous literary style that intertwines action-driven plotlines with character-driven exploration, reflecting the era's moral ambiguities and nationalist fervor. The novel expertly juxtaposes the experiences of British soldiers with the perspectives of the Boers, engaging readers in the emotional and ethical dilemmas borne from war, while also showcasing Fenn's skillful prose that emphasizes both tension and camaraderie among soldiers. George Manville Fenn, an English author and prolific writer in the late 19th century, drew from his own experiences and the socio-political environment of the time to craft this compelling work. His extensive background in adventure literature, coupled with his experiences in colonial territories, informs his nuanced portrayals of war and its impact on all individuals involved. By capturing the sentiments of his time, Fenn invites readers to reflect on issues of loyalty, bravery, and the often-blurred lines of moral righteousness in warfare. "Charge!" is highly recommended for readers interested in historical fiction that elevates the voices of both sides in conflict. Fenn's ability to create relatable characters amid the chaos of war makes this work not only a thrilling read but also a thought-provoking examination of human resilience and the quest for understanding amidst turmoil.

Audiobook details

GenreAction and Adventure, Historical Fiction
Length12 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
2"Charge!"
3Chapter One.: Home, Sweet Home.
4Chapter Two.: Our Ugly Visitor.
5Chapter Three.: My First Real Trouble.
Show all chapters
6Chapter Four.: Waiting for my Chance.
7Chapter Five.: A Dash for Liberty.
8Chapter Six.: Night on the Veldt.
9Chapter Seven.: My Nocturnal Visitor.
10Chapter Eight.: Perils Which Grow.
11Chapter Nine.: The Friend In Need.
12Chapter Ten.: Running the Gauntlet.
13Chapter Eleven.: Out of the Frying-Pan.
14Chapter Twelve.: Into the Fire.
15Chapter Thirteen.: Realities of War.
16Chapter Fourteen.: How I Used My Cartridges.
17Chapter Fifteen.: The Sergeant’s Wound.
18Chapter Sixteen.: On the March.
19Chapter Seventeen.: We Make a Discovery.
20Chapter Eighteen.: The Old Folks Work.
21Chapter Nineteen.: Bathing in Hot Water.
22Chapter Twenty.: What People Think Brave.
23Chapter Twenty One.: I have my Doubts.
24Chapter Twenty Two.: Making the Best of it.
25Chapter Twenty Three.: “Il Faut Manger.”
26Chapter Twenty Four.: A Very Wild Scheme.
27Chapter Twenty Five.: A Forlorn-Hope for Food.
28Chapter Twenty Six.: Successful Beyond Expectation.
29Chapter Twenty Seven.: Night Work.
30Chapter Twenty Eight.: An Unexpected Obstacle.
31Chapter Twenty Nine.: Another Discovery.
32Chapter Thirty.: Briggs’s Irish Lion.
33Chapter Thirty One.: Denham’s bad luck.
34Chapter Thirty Two.: Denham Shivers.
35Chapter Thirty Three.: Denham Proves to be Right.
36Chapter Thirty Four.: An Ambuscade In Stone.
37Chapter Thirty Five.: In Doleful Dumps.
38Chapter Thirty Six.: The Use of Muscles.
39Chapter Thirty Seven.: A Hospital Visitor.
40Chapter Thirty Eight.: The Sergeant’s Notion.
41Chapter Thirty Nine.: The Doctor’s Dose.
42Chapter Forty.: Joeboy is Missing Again.
43Chapter Forty One.: Our Wild Attempt.
44Chapter Forty Two.: In the Trap.
45Chapter Forty Three.: In the Dark Watches.
46Chapter Forty Four.: In the Queer Prison.
47Chapter Forty Five.: A Damper For Our Plans.
48Chapter Forty Six.: How we were saved.
49Chapter Forty Seven.
50A Clear Sky.
Cutlass and CudgelGeorge Manville Fenn10h 20m3.7 (11)$2 · $0.00
The King's SonsGeorge Manville Fenn1h 14m$2 · $0.00
The New Mistress: A TaleGeorge Manville Fenn10h 53m$2 · $0.00
A Little WorldGeorge Manville Fenn16h 20m$2 · $0.00
A Double KnotGeorge Manville Fenn15h 9m$2 · $0.00
The King's Esquires; Or, The Jewel of FranceGeorge Manville Fenn8h 42m$2 · $0.00
The Queen's ScarletGeorge Manville Fenn9h 1m$2 · $0.00
The Rosery FolkGeorge Manville Fenn7h 53m$1 · $0.00
The Bag of DiamondsGeorge Manville Fenn5h 17m$2 · $0.00
Yussuf the Guide; Or, the Mountain BanditsGeorge Manville Fenn10h 24m$2 · $0.00
Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and KrisGeorge Manville Fenn11h 43m$2 · $0.00
The Mynns' MysteryGeorge Manville Fenn8h 25m3.5 (30)$1 · $0.00
The Sapphire CrossGeorge Manville Fenn12h 2m$2 · $0.00
Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short SketchesGeorge Manville Fenn8h 48m$2 · $0.00
King of the CastleGeorge Manville Fenn14h 48m$2 · $0.00
The Powder MonkeyGeorge Manville Fenn1h 2m$2 · $0.00
Jungle and Stream; Or, The Adventures of Two Boys in SiamGeorge Manville Fenn10h 8m$2 · $0.00
The Vast AbyssGeorge Manville Fenn14h 18m$1 · $0.00
One Maid's MischiefGeorge Manville Fenn21h 7m$2 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The Road to Gundagai (The Matilda Saga, #3)Jackie French12h 31m4.6 (1.2K)$33 · $0.00
TimelessR. A. Salvatore12h 30m4.5 (8K)$33 · $0.00
An Inside JobDaniel Silva9h 28m4.4 (26.3K)$29 · $0.00
The CommodoreP. T. Deutermann11h 53m4.5 (2.4K)$20 · $0.00
A Closed and Common OrbitBecky Chambers11h 30m4.4 (140.7K)$29 · $0.00
Thud!Terry Pratchett10h 31m4.4 (112.6K)$8 · $0.00
All Quiet on the Western Front (Annotated)Erich Maria Remarque8h 34m4.4 (12.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
Crime and punishmentFyodor Dostoevsky22h 34m4.4 (1.3M)$3 · $0.00
Exit FeeBrad Taylor3h 16m4.5 (1.9K)$18 · $0.00
The Alice NetworkKate Quinn15h 7m4.4 (887.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Ohio River Trilogy: Betty Zane, The Spirit of the Border & The Last TrailZane Grey29h 8m4.4 (1.8K)$1 · $0.00
A Darkness ReturnsRaymond E. Feist19h 29m4.4 (1.9K)$40 · $0.00
THE VALLEY OF SILENT MEN (Annotated)James Oliver Curwood8h 25m4.5 (420)$2 · $0.00
West of the TularosaLouis L’Amour5h 53m4.4 (3.6K)$20 · $0.00
The Emperor's FistJay Allan8h 37m4.5 (272)$26 · $0.00
The Amazing Interlude (Annotated)Mary Roberts Rinehart8h 42m4.5 (365)$1.99 · $0.00
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Annotated)C. S. Forester14h 7m4.4 (17.3K)$2 · $0.00
Shades of WickedJeaniene Frost8h 51m4.4 (19.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lieutenant Hornblower (Annotated)C. S. Forester11h 41m4.5 (2.9K)$2 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideLucy Maud Montgomery11h 44m4.5 (48.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Viennese DressmakerKathryn Gauci11h 46m4.5 (2.1K)$23 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Under the Light of the Italian MoonJennifer Anton12h 28m4.5 (5.3K)$23 · $0.00
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary EditionMargaret Walker15h 43m4.5 (9.5K)$25 · $0.00
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen14h 44m4.4 (4.7M)$2 · $0.00
Flying Colours (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith9h 26m4.4 (10.1K)$2 · $0.00
With Love from HarlemReShonda Tate13h 48m4.5 (2K)$6 · $0.00
Sweet Home Highland ChristmasMay McGoldrick, Jan Coffey2h 54m4.5 (1.4K)$7 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideL. M. Montgomery12h 25m4.4 (67.5K)$2 · $0.00
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Annotated)Willa Cather9h 13m4.4 (4.7K)$2 · $0.00
The Alice NetworkKate Quinn15h 7m4.4 (887.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Goddess of WarsawLisa Barr13h 4m4.4 (36.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Ohio River Trilogy: Betty Zane, The Spirit of the Border & The Last TrailZane Grey29h 8m4.4 (1.8K)$1 · $0.00
The Attic ChildLola Jaye14h 46m4.4 (21K)$33 · $0.00
Martyr of the CatacombsJames De Mille3h 41m4.5 (744)$1 · $0.00
Quo VadisHenryk Sienkiewicz22h 52m4.4 (62K)$21 · $0.00
Bring Up The BodiesHilary Mantel14h 35m4.4 (150K)$33 · $0.00
By the Shores of Silver LakeLaura Ingalls Wilder7h 38m4.4 (103.7K)$1 · $0.00

You may also like

The RefugeesArthur Conan Doyle12h 51m3.9 (1.8K)$1 · $0.00
The Underground Railroad (Complete Collection)William Still43h 31m4.4 (3.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
The RefugeesArthur Conan Doyle13h 21m4.0 (364)$2.30
With Lee in Virginia - a story of the American Civil WarG. A. Henty11h 3m3.9 (1.9K)$2.30
Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot WarsG. A. Henty14h 7m4.0 (787)$2 · $0.00
Calico CaptiveElizabeth George Speare2h 25m4.1 (10.3K)$14
Under Drake's FlagGeorge Alfred Henty10h 10m4.0 (1.3K)$25
When Santiago Fell; or, The War Adventures of Two ChumsEdward Stratemeyer6h 18m$1 · $0.00
Journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius, a Revolutionary SurgeonElias Cornelius1h 11m$1 · $0.00
The Last IsraeliteAllen Childs16h 50m3.7 (32)$27 · $0.00
When Santiago Fell; or, The War Adventures of Two ChumsEdward Stratemeyer6h 16m$2.30 · $0.00
True to the Old FlagGeorge Alfred Henty10h 1m3.8 (350)$25
The Flag of the AdventurerSydney C. Grier12h 28m$2 · $0.00
The Rising of the Red ManJohn Mackie6h 12m$2 · $0.00
Jump Ship to FreedomJames Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier3h 48m3.9 (551)$15
True to the Old Flag - A Tale of the American War of IndependenceG. A. Henty10h 23m3.8 (609)$2.30
The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's EveJoseph A. Altsheler9h 49m3.8 (305)$2.30
The Pirate City An Algerine TaleR. M. Ballantyne9h 44m3.9 (110)$2.30
The History of Second Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria & Ian Hamilton's MarchWinston Churchill17h 21m$1.99 · $0.00
The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing; Or, Aeroplane Chums in the TropicsJohn Luther Langworthy5h 5m$1 · $0.00