Poilu [electronic resource] : the World War I notebooks of Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914-1918 / translated by Edward M. Strauss ; foreword Robert Cowley ; introductions and afterword by Rémy Cazals.
Barthas, Louis, 1879-1952.; Strauss, Ted.; Cowley, Robert.; Cazals, Rémy.
2014
D811 .P655 2014eb
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Poilu [electronic resource] : the World War I notebooks of Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914-1918 / translated by Edward M. Strauss ; foreword Robert Cowley ; introductions and afterword by Rémy Cazals.
Author
Barthas, Louis, 1879-1952.
Uniform Title
Carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier, 1914-1918. English
ISBN
9780300206951 electronic book
9780300191592
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the French.
Description
1 online resource ( xxvi, 426 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
D811 .P655 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.4/1244092
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Includes index.
"Originally published as Les carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier, 1914-1918 ... Editions La Découverte, Paris, France, 1978"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-410) and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Strauss, Ted.
Cowley, Robert.
Cazals, Rémy.
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Poilu.
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Machine generated contents note: 1st Notebook Garrison Duty
-August 2
November 1, 1914
2nd Notebook To the Killing Fields
-November 4
December 14, 1914
3rd Notebook Massacres
-December 15, 1914
May 4, 1915
4th Notebook Toward the Lorette Charnel House
-May 4
June 2, 1915
5th Notebook The Lorette Charnel House
-June 2
July 2, 1915
6th Notebook The Accursed War, the Charnel House of Lorette, the Slaughter of September 25, 1915
-July 1
September 27, 1915
7th Notebook The Bloody and Futile Offensive of September 25, 1915
-September 27
November 15, 1915
8th Notebook The Neuville-Saint-Vaast Sector
-November 15, 1915
February 29, 1916
9th Noteboo Toward the Hell of Verdun
-February 29
April 26, 1916
10th Notebook The Verdun Charnel House
-April 26
May 19, 1916
11th Notebook The 296th Regiment in Champagne
-May 19
July 12, 1916
12th Notebook The 296th Regiment in Champagne
-July 13
August 29, 1916
13th Notebook The Somme Offensive: In the Blood-Soaked Mud
-August 29
November 1, 1916
14th Notebook In the Blood-Soaked Mud of the Somme
-November 1, 1916
January 30, 1917
15th Notebook The 296th Regiment from Beziers in Champagne
-January 30
April 26, 1917
16th Notebook The Killing Ground of Mont Cornillet, the 296th Regiment in the Argonne
-April 26
July 1, 1917
17th Notebook The End of the 296th Infantry Regiment
-July 1, 1917
January 28, 1918
18th Notebook The Last Year of Martyrdom
-January 29
August 11, 1918
19th Notebook The End of the Nightmare
-August 11, 1918
February 14, 1919.

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