Commitment and sacrifice : personal diaries of the Great War

Commitment and sacrifice : personal diaries of the Great War / Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee & Frans Coetzee.

For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading participants. However, those accounts offered little by way of the intimate history, or the individual experie...

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Other Authors: Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn, 1955-, Coetzee, Frans, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives.
World War, 1914-1918 > Sources.
War diaries.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
War diaries
Personal narratives
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • "It was like ten thousand devils let loose" / John French, British sapper
  • "Young men ... helping this nation to save its soul" / Phillip Cate, American ambulance driver
  • "Behind barbed wire in ... a stable for men" / Willy Wolff, German internee in Britain
  • "A year ... such as I can never hope to have again" / James D. Hutchison, ANZAC artilleryman
  • "Life has been spent among the dead" / Henri Desagneaux, French infantry officer
  • "Hunger was stronger than all punishments" / Felix Kaufmann, German POW in France.

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