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001 2013041264
003 DLC
005 20141031082621.0
008 131108s2014 ctua b 001 0deng
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020 $a9780300191592 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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050 00 $aD811$b.B361813 2014
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100 1 $aBarthas, Louis,$d1879-1952.
240 10 $aCarnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier, 1914-1918.$lEnglish
245 10 $aPoilu :$bthe World War I notebooks of Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914-1918 /$ctranslated by Edward M. Strauss ; Foreword by Robert Crowley ; Introductions and afterword by Rémy Cazals.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2014]
300 $axxvi, 426 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Originally published as Les carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier, 1914-1918 ... Editions La Découverte, Paris, France, 1978"--Title page verso.
520 2 $a"Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Barthas' riveting wartime narrative, first published in France in 1978, presents the vivid, immediate experiences of a frontline soldier. This excellent new translation brings Barthas' wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a "poilu," or "hairy one," as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas' return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 393-410) and index.
600 10 $aBarthas, Louis,$d1879-1952.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$vPersonal narratives, French.
650 0 $aSoldiers$zFrance$vBiography.
610 10 $aFrance.$bArmée$vBiography.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns.
610 10 $aFrance.$bArmée$xMilitary life$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Military / World War I.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / France.$2bisacsh