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A French Soldiers War Diary 1914 1918
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Book Synopsis A French Soldier's War Diary 1914-1918 by : Henri Desagneau
Download or read book A French Soldier's War Diary 1914-1918 written by Henri Desagneau and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis French Soldier's War Diary by : Henri Désagneaux
Download or read book French Soldier's War Diary written by Henri Désagneaux and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918 by : Charles S. Myers
Download or read book Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918 written by Charles S. Myers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1940 book by Charles S. Myers, Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in the First World War, explains his work on shell shock.
Book Synopsis From the Marne to Verdun by : Charles Delvert
Download or read book From the Marne to Verdun written by Charles Delvert and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Diary of the 1914-1918 War by : Yves Congar
Download or read book Diary of the 1914-1918 War written by Yves Congar and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis My War Diary 1914-1918 by : Ethel M. Bilbrough
Download or read book My War Diary 1914-1918 written by Ethel M. Bilbrough and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Leaves from a War Diary by : James Guthrie Harbord
Download or read book Leaves from a War Diary written by James Guthrie Harbord and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major General James G. Harbord's letters to his wife about his experience, as it was happening, during World War I.
Book Synopsis Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918 by : Charles S. Myers
Download or read book Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918 written by Charles S. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of a French Private by : Gaston Riou
Download or read book The Diary of a French Private written by Gaston Riou and published by London, G. Allen & Unwin Limited [1916]. This book was released on 1916 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paris Sees it Through by : Helen Pearl Adam
Download or read book Paris Sees it Through written by Helen Pearl Adam and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book They Shall Not Pass written by Ian Sumner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sumner’s brilliant window onto the French army is a book I cannot recommend highly enough . . . Full of detail and mixed with vivid personal accounts.”—War History Online This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. Their testimony gives a striking insight into the mentality of the troops and their experience of combat, their emotional ties to their relatives at home, their opinions about their commanders and their fellow soldiers, the appalling conditions and dangers they endured, and their attitude to their German enemy. In their own words, in diaries, letters, reports and memoirs—most of which have never been published in English before—they offer a fascinating inside view of the massive life-and-death struggle that took place on the Western Front. The author’s pioneering work will appeal to readers who may know something about the British and German armies on the Western Front, but little about the French army which bore the brunt of the fighting on the allied side. His book represents a milestone in publishing on the Great War. “An interesting, well-written and informative book which goes a long way to explaining why the French army mounted the staunch defense of its homeland that it did.”—Burton Mail “The text is skillfully put together and moves seamlessly from one voice to another while illuminating the flow of events that affected Frenchmen and women during the Great War.”—Stand To! The Western Front Association
Book Synopsis French Soldier's War Diary by : Henri Désagneaux
Download or read book French Soldier's War Diary written by Henri Désagneaux and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poilu written by Louis Barthas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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”)
Book Synopsis General Jack's Diary 1914-18 by : John Terraine
Download or read book General Jack's Diary 1914-18 written by John Terraine and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Captain J. L. Jack was serving with the First Cameronians, one of the earliest British regiments to arrive in France. Almost every day while serving in France and Flanders, Jack kept a secret diary. This diary is unique. It presents the detail of a regular officer's life at war during virtually the whole of the First World War on the Western Front. Jack was witness not only to the horror and wretchedness of much that happened in the trenches but also to the bravery and spirit that kept the British soldiers in the line going through to the momentous battles of 1918 and final victory. Poignant and moving, as well as describing the reality of war on the Western Front, these diaries have been edited and linked with commentaries by the distinguished military historian John Terraine.
Book Synopsis The War Diary of a Diplomat by : Lee Meriwether
Download or read book The War Diary of a Diplomat written by Lee Meriwether and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shell Schock in France 1914-18 written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914–1918 by : Chris Kempshall
Download or read book British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914–1918 written by Chris Kempshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined together to fight for a common cause. Using the diaries, records, and letters of these men, Chris Kempshall shows how these soldiers interacted with each other during four years of war. The British army that arrived in France in 1914 became isolated from their French allies and unable to coordinate with them. By 1916, Britain’s professional soldiers were replaced by civilians who learned to love their French ally, who reached out to them in friendship. At the end of the war the introduction of American soldiers caused hope and conflict before perceived British failures brought the alliance to the brink of collapse. Final cooperation between these three nations saw them victorious.
