Your Death Would Be Mine - Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War

Informationen zum Autor Martha Hanna is Associate Professor of History! University of Colorado! Boulder. She is the author of The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers during the Great War (Harvard). Klappentext Paul and Marie Pireaud! a young peasant couple from southwest France! were newlyweds when World War I erupted. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote! Martha Hanna tells their moving story and reveals a powerful and personal perspective on war. Zusammenfassung Paul and Marie Pireaud! a young peasant couple from southwest France! were newlyweds when World War I erupted. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote! Martha Hanna tells their moving story and reveals a powerful and personal perspective on war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. How Sad the Countryside Is 2. Here It Is Extermination on the Ground 3. Oh! How I Suffered! My Poor Paul 4. No One Is Happy in War 5. We Are Martyrs of the Century Conclusion Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Martha Hanna, Hanna Martha
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9780674030510
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03051-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; History, France, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1910 to c 1919, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I