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Author: Eugène-Emmanuel Lemercier Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1782892923 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 131
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The story of a renowned French painter who volunteered for the Army during the First World War paints a vivid picture of the horror at the front in his letters home written before his death in 1915. “A Bestseller, remarkable for the horrors of the western front conveyed in a spirit of self-sacrifice and filial love.”- A Companion to World War One ed. John Horne, Blackwell Publishing, 2012 “THE following letters were written by a young French painter who was at the front until the beginning of April, 1915, when he “disappeared” in one of the combats in the Argonne region of France. “Should he be spoken of in the present or in the past?” asks M. André Chevrillon , a friend of the soldier’s family, in the preface to the French edition of this book. “Since the day when his mother and grandmother received from him his last communication, a post card bespattered with mud which announced the attack in which he fell, what a tragic silence for these two women who, during eight months, had lived only with these letters, which came almost daily. In his studio, among the pictures in which this young man had fixed his dreams and his visions of an artist, I have seen, piously arranged on a table, all the little square white sheets of this correspondence. What a speechless presence! I did not know then what a soul was there transcribed in these messages to the family hearth - a fully formed soul, which, if it had lived, I feel sure would have spread its fame and its influence far beyond this little home circle and radiated a-wide among the hearts of men.””
Author: Eugène-Emmanuel Lemercier Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1782892923 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 131
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The story of a renowned French painter who volunteered for the Army during the First World War paints a vivid picture of the horror at the front in his letters home written before his death in 1915. “A Bestseller, remarkable for the horrors of the western front conveyed in a spirit of self-sacrifice and filial love.”- A Companion to World War One ed. John Horne, Blackwell Publishing, 2012 “THE following letters were written by a young French painter who was at the front until the beginning of April, 1915, when he “disappeared” in one of the combats in the Argonne region of France. “Should he be spoken of in the present or in the past?” asks M. André Chevrillon , a friend of the soldier’s family, in the preface to the French edition of this book. “Since the day when his mother and grandmother received from him his last communication, a post card bespattered with mud which announced the attack in which he fell, what a tragic silence for these two women who, during eight months, had lived only with these letters, which came almost daily. In his studio, among the pictures in which this young man had fixed his dreams and his visions of an artist, I have seen, piously arranged on a table, all the little square white sheets of this correspondence. What a speechless presence! I did not know then what a soul was there transcribed in these messages to the family hearth - a fully formed soul, which, if it had lived, I feel sure would have spread its fame and its influence far beyond this little home circle and radiated a-wide among the hearts of men.””
Author: Daniil Alexandrovich Granin Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473851106 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 95
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In March 1915, a young French artist-turned soldier went missing in action. He left behind a remarkable series of letters which, due to wartime security, had to be edited and published anonymously under the title Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915. This powerful volume was for many years out of print, but this new edition corrects that unhappy situation and provides an English speaking readership with a rare and much needed insight into what it meant to experience the Great War from the sharp end during the desperate struggles of the French Army fighting for its survival in 1914 and 1915.Originally published by Constable & Co., London in 1917 with a preface by Andr Chevrillon, this evocative and moving primary source volume is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the role of the French army in the opening battles of the Great War.
Author: Arthur Clutton-Brock Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473823315 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 122
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In March 1915, a young French artist-turned soldier went missing in action. He left behind a remarkable series of letters which, due to wartime security, had to be edited and published anonymously under the title Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915. This powerful volume was for many years out of print, but this new edition corrects that unhappy situation and provides an English speaking readership with a rare and much needed insight into what it meant to experience the Great War from the sharp end during the desperate struggles of the French Army fighting for its survival in 1914 and 1915.??Originally published by Constable & Co., London in 1917 with a preface by Andr Chevrillon, this evocative and moving primary source volume is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the role of the French army in the opening battles of the Great War.
Author: Bernard Wilkin Publisher: Pen & Sword Military ISBN: 9781399019668 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 192
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The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often seen from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers' memoirs. It is rarely seen from the perspective of the lowest ranks of the army, and the experience of the ordinary soldiers is less well known and is often misunderstood. That is why this account, based on more than 1,600 letters written by French soldiers of the Napoleonic armies, is of such value. It adds to the existing literature by exploring every aspect of the life of a French soldier during the period 1799-1815. The book will be fascinating and informative reading for military and cultural historians, but it will also appeal to anyone who is interested in the war experience of common soldiers. It offers the English-speaking audience a French view of a conflict which is too often limited to the traditional memoirs of Captain Coignet, Colonel Marbot or Sergeant Bourgogne.
Author: William C. Harvey Publisher: Casemate ISBN: 1612000282 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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The dramatic experiences of an ambulance driver in the Great War, told through personal correspondence and photographs. Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion of a family in America’s burgeoning industrial heartland. Volunteering as an ambulance driver with the French Army in the Verdun sector, Royce sent back a constant stream of highly detailed letters describing the experience of frontline combat, as well as comments on strategy, the country he encountered, and the Allies’ prospects for success. This treasure trove of brilliant letters, only recently discovered, is accompanied by several albums worth of rare, high-quality photos depicting aspects of the Great War in France never previously published. Full of action, including the suspense and terror of the Ludendorff Offensive, and interesting firsthand analyses, such as comparing French and German trench works, Letters from Verdun brings the reader amazingly close to the frontlines of the Great War.
Author: American Ouvroir Fund Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484205443 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 78
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Excerpt from French Soldiers' Letters If the letters received by the American Ouvroir in Paris may be taken as types representing the average state of mind of the French soldier, then it would appear that the French soldier does not look upon himself in any sense as a hero, but merely as a man who in the simplest way possible is doing his' duty. The courageous way in which most of these men take their hard lives at the front, surrounded as they are continually by danger and discomforts, with death or maiming a daily possibility, is in itself worthy of admiration. When considered in conjunction with the fact that their homes are in the invaded portions of France, that these soldiers have not heard from their wives, children or par ents since the war started, these otherwise simple letters should increase our respect for a nation which produces such men by the million. When one gets to personally know these men on their short leaves and sees how they take what would appear to us a great tragedy in such a simple and, unaffected. Manner, one feels that it is a rare privilege to be able to help them. I would be grateful if you could send me a pair of socks, ' a soldier will write, and then adds that he has not heard from his wife and three children since the war started and does not know whether they are starving, or even alive. The smallness and humbleness of the request, coupled with the real tragic posi tion in which the man is placed, constitutes something that onehas to have actually lived with to appreciate. And then the vast majority of these French soldiers are such a gentle lot, so kindly and genial, that it seems almost impossible to realize that they have just come on leave from the first line of trenches, where they have been engaged in throwing bombs and hand grenades at the enemy and engaging in fierce night attacks with the bayonet. I remember seeing one such gentle creature - perhaps I might say gentle-man - lying in a bed in one of the French hospitals with a very pale, delicate face and. A long beard, while on the lapel of his bed jacket was pinned the cross of the Legion of Honor. This man, who was small in stature and delicate in build, had held up a German armor-plate automobile, armed with a rapid-firing gun and a crew of several Germans. The result of this hold up was that the armor-plated automobile was captured, although the man in question almost lost his life in doing so, and will probably be a human wreck for the remainder of his life. This man's face was almost ascetic in its spirituality, and yet back of all this gentleness lay the moral courage which makes the French soldier one of the best in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Eugene Emmanuel Lemercier Publisher: Scholar's Choice ISBN: 9781296110031 Category : Languages : en Pages : 194
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