A Volunteer Poilu
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A Volunteer Poilu Illustrated Edition
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Author : Henry Beston Sheahan
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
A Volunteer Poilu Illustrated Edition written by Henry Beston Sheahan and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
Illustrated with a number of photographs from the French Front Lines in and around Verdun. Also Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps. Henry Beston Sheahan was a noted American novelist and naturist who wrote many well-known books, including the Cape Cod classic The Outermost House; he volunteered for service in the French Army during the First World War. In volunteer Poilu he recounts his experiences in the American Ambulance Service in the evacuating casualties in and around Verdun during 1916. In the midst of the bloodiest prolonged siege in the world at that time the number of wounded French soldiers were prodigious; the Ambulance services needed every able body even if they did come from the neutral United States. In spite of the huge workload that Sheahan undertook he managed to scribble notes of scenes and anecdotes of the great battle and the soldiers of the French Army. A rare and movingly written memoir from the Great Battle of Verdun.
A Volunteer Poilu
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Author : Henry Beston
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Beston and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
'A Volunteer Poilu' is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences fighting on behalf of France as an American during World War I. The author, Henry Beston, was involved in the Battle of Verdun and Bois-le-Prêtre fighting, with the latter having been a skirmish between his infantry division and that of the Germans.
A Volunteer Poilu
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Author : Henry Beston Sheahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-23
A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Beston Sheahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-23 with categories.
Originally published in 1916. Personal narrative. World War I.
A Volunteer Poilu
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Author : Beston Henry
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-21
A Volunteer Poilu written by Beston Henry and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
A Volunteer Poilu
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Author : Henry Sheahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Sheahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Transport of sick and wounded categories.
A Volunteer Poilu Wwi Centenary Series
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Author : Henry Beston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-21
A Volunteer Poilu Wwi Centenary Series written by Henry Beston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-21 with History categories.
""I have ventured to call this book A Volunteer Poilu principally because we were known to the soldiers of the Bois-le-Pretre as ""les Poilus Americains."" Then, too, it was my ambition to do for my comrades, the French private soldiers, what other books have done for the soldiers of other armies. The title chosen, however, was more than complimentary; it was but just. In recognition of the work of the Section during the summer, it was, in October, 1915, formally adopted into the French army; a French officer became its administrative head, and the drivers were given the same papers, pay, and discipline as their French comrades. I wish to thank many of my old friends of Section II, who have aided me in the writing of this book."" This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context."
A Volunteer Poilu Classic Reprint
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Author : Henry Beston
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-25
A Volunteer Poilu Classic Reprint written by Henry Beston and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-25 with categories.
Excerpt from A Volunteer Poilu Paris, rain, and darkness The Gardens of the Tuileries The dormitory The hospital at night Beginning Of the Cham pagne Offensive The Gare de la Chapelle at two in the morning -the wounded The Zouave stretcher-bearers The Arabs in the abandoned school Suburban Paris at dawn The home of the deaconesses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Gentlemen Volunteers
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Author : Arlen J. Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Gentlemen Volunteers written by Arlen J. Hansen and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with History categories.
They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen. The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World War is one of gallantry amid gore; manners amid madness. Arlen J. Hansen’s Gentlemen Volunteers brings to life the entire story of the men—and women—who formed the first ambulance corps, and who went on to redefine American culture. Some were to become legends—Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Malcolm Cowley, and Walt Disney—but all were part of a generation seeking something greater and grander than what they could find at home. The war in France beckoned them, promising glory, romance, and escape. Between 1914 and 1917 (when the United States officially entered the war), they volunteered by the thousands, abandoning college campuses and prep schools across the nation and leaving behind an America determined not to be drawn into a “European war.” What the volunteers found in France was carnage on an unprecedented scale. Here is a spellbinding account of a remarkable time; the legacy of the ambulance drivers of WWI endures to this day.
The Verdun Regiment
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Author : Johnathan Bracken
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-07-30
The Verdun Regiment written by Johnathan Bracken and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-30 with History categories.
This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online
World War I
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Author : Eugene Edward Beiriger
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-11-26
World War I written by Eugene Edward Beiriger and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents. The literary works of the First World War are one of the richest sources we have for understanding one of the twentieth century's most significant conflicts. Not only do many of them have historical merit, but some were critically acclaimed by both contemporaries and subsequent scholars. For example, Henri Barbusse's Under Fire, one of the earliest novels of the war, won accolades in France and the respect of war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen as well as novelists Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway. This book examines these works and those of war poets Rupert Brooke and John McCrae and others, providing context as well as opportunities to explore thematic elements with primary source documents, such as diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, speeches, and government publications. It is unique in its use of literary and historical sources as mediums by which to both better understand the literature of the war and use literature to better understand the war itself.