Poilu : the World War I notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914-1918 /

"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 fough...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barthas, Louis, 1879-1952 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Barthas, Louis, > 1879-1952.
Barthas, Louis, > 1879-1952
France. > Armée > Biography.
France. > Armée > Military life > History > 20th century.
France. > Armée > Biographies.
France. > Armée > Vie militaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
France. > Armée
1900 - 1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, French.
Soldiers > France > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Campagnes et batailles.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Armed Forces > Military life
Military campaigns
Soldiers
France
Personal narratives
Biographies
History
Personal narratives > French
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Garrison duty : August 2-November 1, 1914
  • To the killing fields : November 4-December 14, 1914
  • Massacres : December 15, 1914-May 4, 1915
  • Toward the Lorette charnel house : May 4-June 2, 1915
  • The Lorette charnel house : June 2-July 2, 1915
  • The accursed war, the charnel house of Lorette, the slaughter of September 25, 1915 : July 1-September 27, 1915
  • The bloody and futile offensive of September 25, 1915 : September 27-November 15, 1915
  • The Neuville-Saint-Vaast Sector : November 15, 1915-February 29, 1916
  • Toward the hell of Verdun : February 29-April 26, 1916
  • The Verdun charnel house : April 26-May 19, 1916
  • The 296th Regiment in Champagne : May 19-July 12, 1916
  • The 296th Regiment in Champagne : July 13-August 29, 1916
  • The Somme Offensive : in the blood-soaked mud : August 29-November 1, 1916
  • In the blood-soaked mud of the Somme : November 1, 1916-January 30, 1917
  • The 296th Regiment from Béziers in Champagne : January 30-April 26, 1917
  • The killing ground of Mont Cornillet, the 296th Regiment in the Argonne : April 26-July 1, 1917
  • The end of the 296th Infantry Regiment : July 1, 1917-January 28, 1918
  • The last year of martyrdom : January 29-August 11, 1918
  • The end of the nightmare : August 11, 1918-February 14, 1919
  • Afterword to the 1997 edition / by Rémy Cazals.

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