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La Grande Guerre
Récits de combattants

Originally published in 1919, this book contains the French text of five memoirs written by authors serving in the armed forces during WWI.

Arthur Wilson-Green (Edited by)

9781107692602, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 April 2014

192 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 1 cm, 0.19 kg

Originally published in 1919, this book contains the French text of five memoirs written by authors who served in the armed forces for France during WWI. The essays include vivid descriptions of life in the trenches, in French hospitals and in a German prison. This poetically-phrased and insightful book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the French experience of the First World War.

Marcel Nadaud: Un baptême
Son fils
Le pirate
La blessure
Le mur
Au couvent
Gaston Riou: Prisonnier
Fièvre et cafard
J'ai une table
Un autre déjunner
La première lettre
La cité primitive
Le jour des morts 1914
Les russes
Le petit peuple allemand et la guerre
La traversée de la Suisse
Jean Renaud: Gott mit uns
Le village fantôme
La suprême infamie
La route tragique
Une relève
Capitaine Canudo: Kérévès-Déré
Salonique
Mort d'un village
La messe des morts
Attaque d'une montagne
Notre retraite de Serbie
Adieu, Serbie
Emile Henriot: Le grand terrain
Mon régiment
La patrie
Une bonne angine
Guerre et poésie
Cent soldats français inconnus
Aux lignes
En Alsace reconquise
Camp Benoit
L'attaque.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]

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