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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 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781473840720 |
Author | : D. Barlone |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2011-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107600294 |
This volume presents the war diary of Major D. Barlone of the Free French Forces.
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 | : Sir William Howard Russell |
Publisher | : London : G. Routledge |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : English diaries |
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Author | : Rowland Strong |
Publisher | : London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : Gaston Riou |
Publisher | : London, G. Allen & Unwin Limited [1916] |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Germans |
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Author | : Henri Desagneau |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147382298X |
A pattern has been given to the history of the events between 1914 and 1918 which is called the 'Great War'. To Henri Desagneaux and to thousands of others, there was no pattern to be seen from the trenches where he executed orders which ensured 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 | : Mary Louise Roberts |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226923096 |
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
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.