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Length6h 12m
About this audiobook
Tom Kettle, an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, war poet, soldier and Home Rule politician joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Tom was enlisted for service in the British Army, with which he was killed in action on the Western Front in the Autumn of 1916. The Ways of War is Kettle's autobiographical work which is based on the letters he was sending from the battlefield to his wife Mary. Kettle was one of the most brilliant figures both in the Young Ireland and Young Europe of his time. The opening chapters of the book reveal him as a Nationalist concerned about the liberty not only of Ireland but of every nation, small and great. After the chapters describing the inevitable sympathy of an Irishman with Serbia and Belgium—little nations attacked by two Imperial bullies—comes an account of the tragic scenes Kettle himself witnessed in Belgium, where he served as a war-correspondent in the early days of the war. The book closes with "Trade or Honour?"—an appeal to the Allies to preserve high and disinterested motives in ending the war as in beginning it, and to turn a deaf ear to those political hucksters to whom gain means more than freedom. Thus "The Ways of War" is a book, not only of patriotism, but of international idealism. Above all, it is a passionate human document—the "apologia pro vita sua" of a soldier who died for freedom.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 17, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFATORY NOTE
15“G.H.Q.”
2MEMOIR
16“ZUR ERINNERUNG” A LETTER TO AN AUSTRIAN FELLOW-STUDENT
3WHY IRELAND FOUGHT
17SILHOUETTES FROM THE FRONT
4I. Prelude
18I. The Way to the Trenches
5II. The Bullying of Serbia
19II. The Long Endurance
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6III. The Crime Against Belgium
20III. Rhapsody on Rats
7UNDER THE HEEL OF THE HUN
21THE NEW FRANCE
8I. A World Adrift
22THE SOLDIER-PRIESTS OF FRANCE
9II. “Europe against the Barbarians”
23THE GOSPEL OF THE DEVIL
10III. Termonde
24I. Bismarck
11IV. Malines
25II. Nietzsche
12V. In Ostend
26III. Treitschke and the Professors
13TREATING BELGIUM DECENTLY
27TRADE OR HONOUR?
14BELGIUM IN PEACE WORK OF THREE GENERATIONS—COMPARISONS WITH IRELAND—SOME MEMORIES
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