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Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas (Paperback, 2015)
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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.
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The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War 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. Barthas' riveting wartime narrative, first published in France in 1978, presents the vivid, immediate experiences of a frontline soldier. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300212488
eBay Product ID (ePID)212612212
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Book TitlePoilu: the World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
AuthorLouis Barthas
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicMemorials, History
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height235mm
Item Width156mm
Item Weight689g
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Title_AuthorLouis Barthas
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 16 Jan, 2019
Powerful and detailed account of WW1 experiences
The go to book in my opinion for a true image of what it was like to serve in WW1 from a lower rank soldier perspective. My only criticism is the translation into English could have been done slightly better in my view. This minor point does not detract from the scribes account of the reality of the Great War killing factory that was the battlefields if WW1.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
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