A good idea of hell : letters from a chasseur à pied /
"Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire with three thousand German shells falling on the French troops every day to the monotony of long quiet hours spent in cold, wet trenches. He writes of the gr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2003.
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| ISBN: | 1585448672 9781585448678 9781603446754 1603446753 1299052800 9781299052802 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire with three thousand German shells falling on the French troops every day to the monotony of long quiet hours spent in cold, wet trenches. He writes of the grinding and indecisive character of the fighting in the Vosges and of the almost ritualistic shelling and limited tactical offensives, such as the attack at Steinbach in December 1914. His later letters were written from the hospital, from officer training school, and from the front at the Somme. He relays news of all the major battlefields - Flanders, Verdun, Russia, Austria, Gallipoli, Italy, Serbia, and the Suez. He also comments on the new technology that changed the nature of war: the machine gun, new airplanes, U-boats, improved artillery, barbed wire, and poison gases." "Drama and a sympathetic human voice combine to make this account of a little-reported French front a valuable addition to the literature on World War I."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Texas A & M University military history series ;
83. |
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