Poilu

Author : Louis Barthas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030020695X
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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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”)

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Poilu 1914–18 written by Ian Sumner and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Why,' the Kaiser enquired of Czar Nicholas in 1913, did he wish to ally himself with France when 'the Frenchman is no longer capable of being a soldier?' Indeed, during World War I (1914-1918) the French Army was in a state of disarray, plagued by indiscipline, mutinies and desertion. The ordinary French citizens that were called upon to defend their motherland, the Poilu, were disrespected and demoralized, and the infamous mutinies of 1917 by the Poilu were not protests against the war itself, but against how the war was conducted. The rebellions sent a stark warning, forcing a reform in the management of the war. Consequently, the performance of many French regiments improved and the Poilu went on to become the only European troops to fight the entire war within their own borders. Ian Sumner expertly charts the history of the Poilu, from the conscription of hundreds of thousands of men, through their training, to the horrors of the trenches and the fear of no-man's land, providing a fascinating insight into the events that led to the 1917 revolts. New artwork and diagrams illustrate the experiences of the soldiers as the comforts of civilian life were stripped away from them and the trenches became their homes.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Beston and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Yorke Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From "Poilu" to "Yank," written by William Yorke Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Beston Sheahan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782893113
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu [Illustrated Edition] written by Henry Beston Sheahan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with a number of photographs from the French Front Lines in and around Verdun. Also Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps. Henry Beston Sheahan was a noted American novelist and naturist who wrote many well-known books, including the Cape Cod classic The Outermost House; he volunteered for service in the French Army during the First World War. In volunteer Poilu he recounts his experiences in the American Ambulance Service in the evacuating casualties in and around Verdun during 1916. In the midst of the bloodiest prolonged siege in the world at that time the number of wounded French soldiers were prodigious; the Ambulance services needed every able body even if they did come from the neutral United States. In spite of the huge workload that Sheahan undertook he managed to scribble notes of scenes and anecdotes of the great battle and the soldiers of the French Army. A rare and movingly written memoir from the Great Battle of Verdun.

Author : Agnes Warner
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'My Beloved Poilus' written by Agnes Warner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "'My Beloved Poilus'" by Agnes Warner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848842090
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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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 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Ian Sumner provides a concise narrative of the war in order to give a clear context to the eyewitness material. In effect the reader is carried through the experience of each phase of the war on the Western Front and sees events as soldiers and civilians saw them at the time. This emphasis on eyewitness accounts provides an approach to the subject that is completely new for an English-language publication. The authorÍs 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.

Author : Henry Sheahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.UV/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Sheahan and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 034551565X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's War written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling alternate history, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? In this action-packed chronicle of the war that might have been, Harry Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell the story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China and ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory—and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, at once brilliantly imaginative and hugely entertaining, Hitler’s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II—with a very different fate for our world today. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Harry Turtledove's The War that Came Early: West and East.

Author : Herbert Ward
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782893334
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Poilu; Notes And Sketches With The Fighting French [Illustrated Edition] written by Herbert Ward and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 45 pictures and vignettes many in colour. Herbert Ward was a patriotic and passionate Englishman at an unfortunate juncture in his life during the First World War, he was over 40 and would not be allowed to enlist in the British Army for service in the fields of Flanders under ordinary circumstances. However this was a minor issue when the Kaiser’s German hordes advanced to within artillery range of his home in France; he at once gave over his large estate to the Red Cross and argued and created so much fuss that he was finally allowed to join the famous No. 3 Convoy of the British Ambulance Committee. He worked with at a furious rate and his work with the units, which was attached to the French army at the time, surely saved many lives of the “Poilus” that he so admired. Despite the huge burdens that work placed him under he set about recording the admirable bravery and courage of the Allied French soldiers fighting the common German foe.