A Good Idea of Hell
Letters from a Chasseur a Pied
Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier--a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the United States and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted month of trench warfare in the Vosges mountains of Alsace, the only region where French troops actually captured German territory, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature. Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire wi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58544-210-2
- EAN: 9781585442102
- Produktnummer: 9559325
- Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm 553 g
- Abbildungen: 9 b&w photographs, 2 maps, index
- Gewicht: 553
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
JOSHUA BROWN is pastor of West Richmond Friends Meeting in Richmond, Indiana. He has also taught in the graduate school at Earlham College.
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