Poilu - Barthas Louis
Poilu - Barthas Louis The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World WarAlong with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas,…
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Poilu - Barthas Louis
The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World WarAlong 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. 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. 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.
His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a "poilu," or "hairy one," as the untidy, unshaven French