A French Soldiers War Diary 1914 1918
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Author | : Henri Desagneaux |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473841259 |
A classic up-close memoir of fighting in the chaos of World War I. Today, we may have an orderly historical picture of the Great War. But for a soldier like Henri Desagneaux, there was no pattern to be seen from the trenches, where he executed orders ensuring that dozens of men had to die attempting to achieve impossible objectives worked out at a headquarters in the rear. His diary, one of the classic French accounts of the conflict, gives a vivid insight into what it was like to execute those orders, and to live in the trenches with increasingly demoralized, unruly, and mutinous men. In terse, unflinching prose he records their experiences as they confronted the acute dangers of the front line. The appalling conditions in which they fought—and the sheer intensity of the shellfire and the close-quarter combat—have rarely been conveyed with such immediacy.
Author | : Henri Désagneaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2014 |
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ISBN | : 9781473840720 |
Author | : Yves Congar |
Publisher | : ATF Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1925309061 |
Written as a young man in Sedan, in the eastern France, which was occupied by the German's in the First Wold War, Congar makes daily entries about the War. Written from the eyes of a child, the diary was found in his room in Paris after his death and published a few years later. The diary comes with the drawings, maps, and poetry he made as part of this daily entries.
Author | : Yves Congar |
Publisher | : ATF Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 192530907X |
Written as a young man in Sedan, in the eastern France, which was occupied by the German's in the First Wold War, Congar makes daily entries about the War. Written from the eyes of a child, the diary was found in his room in Paris after his death and published a few years later. The diary comes with the drawings, maps, and poetry he made as part of this daily entries.
Author | : Charles Delvert |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147382379X |
Charles Delverts diary records his career as a front-line officer in the French army fighting the Germans during the First World War. It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail he sets down his wartime experiences and those of his men. He describes the relentless emotional and physical strain of active service and the extraordinary courage and endurance required in battle. His account is essential reading for anyone who is keen to gain a direct insight into the Great War from the French soldier's point of view, and it bears comparison with the best-known English and German memoirs and journals of the Great War.
Author | : Charles S. Myers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110767378X |
This 1940 book by Charles S. Myers, Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in the First World War, explains his work on shell shock.
Author | : James Guthrie Harbord |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Major General James G. Harbord's letters to his wife about his experience, as it was happening, during World War I.
Author | : Henri Désagneaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
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Author | : Louis Barthas |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 2014-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030020695X |
“An exceptionally vivid memoir of a French soldier’s experience of the First World War.”—Max Hastings, New York Times bestselling author Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. First published in France in 1978, this excellent new translation brings Barthas’ wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a “poilu,” or “hairy one,” as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas’ return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War. “This is clearly one of the most readable and indispensable accounts of the death of the glory of war.”—The Daily Beast (“Hot Reads”)
Author | : Ethel M. Bilbrough |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473502624 |
Part scrapbook, part memoir, this wonderfully colourful and eloquent diary brims with vivid observations, providing a rare snapshot of what life was like on the Home Front during the First World War. Amateur artist, animal lover and keen writer of letters to the papers, Mrs Bilbrough witnessed the men leaving for war (her husband, Kenneth, a banker in the City, was fortunately too old to be called up); the horses at Waterloo waiting to be transported to France; bombings and airraids; the introduction of the Daylight Saving Bill and food price increases (her consternation as the price of a tin of tongue rose from 2/- to 4/6 is clear!). She also writes at her outrage at the shooting of British nurse Edith Cavell; her sadness when Lord Kitchener is drowned at sea; her alarm as Zeppelins flew over Kent and her anger at the wide-ranging German atrocities. Her relief as war ended is palpable ('PEACE! The armistice is signed, "the day" has come at last! And it is ours!'). Interspersed with her daily jottings are cuttings and cartoons, her own watercolours and drawings and the colourful flags that were sold to raise money for the troops. Charming yet moving, this diary gives us a taste of what it was really like to live through the Great War, seen from the perspective of an acute social observer.