Commitment and Sacrifice
Personal Diaries from the Great War
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2018. április 19.
- ISBN 9780190902353
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem348 oldal
- Méret 155x234x22 mm
- Súly 499 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 13 illus. 0
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Rövid leírás:
This book presents six recently discovered diaries, almost all of which are previously unpublished. It provides an intimate look at how ordinary soldiers and civilians from five countries experienced and reflected upon the physical and psychological strains of the First World War.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading participants. However, those accounts offered little by way of the intimate history, or the individual experiences of those involved in the Great War. In Commitment and Sacrifice, Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee provide just such an "intimate look" by bringing together previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and restoring to publication the diary of a sixth that has long been out of print.
The six diaries address the war on the Western front and the Mediterranean, as well as behind the lines on the home front. Together, these diarists form a diverse group: John French, a British sapper who dug precarious tunnels beneath the trenches of the Western Front; Henri Desagneaux, a French infantry officer embroiled in years of bloody combat; Philip T. Cate, an idealistic American volunteer ambulance driver who sought to save lives rather than take them; Willy Wolff, a German businessman caught in England upon the war's outbreak and interned there for the duration; James Douglas Hutchison, a New Zealand artilleryman fighting thousands of miles from home; and Felix Kaufmann, a German machine gunner, captured and held as a prisoner of war.
Through the personal reflections of these young men, we are transported into many of the iconic episodes of the war, from the upheaval of mobilization through the great battles of Gallipoli, Verdun, and the Somme, as well as the less familiar "other ordeal" of internment and captivity. As members of the so-called Generation of 1914 (each was between nineteen and twenty-four years old), they shared an unwavering commitment to their countries' cause, and possessed a steadfast determination to persevere despite often appalling circumstances.
Collectively, these diaries illuminate the sacrifices of war, whether willingly volunteered or stoically endured. That the diarists had the desire and the ingenuity to record their experiences, whether for their families, posterity, or simply their own personal satisfaction, gives readers the ability to eavesdrop on horrors long past. A century later, we are fortunate that they were both willing and able to set pencil to paper.
Commitment and Sacrifice offers casual readers, instructors, and students a diverse range of exceptional ? and readable ? wartime diaries, all of which would be valuable introductions to the First World War.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction
I. "It was like ten thousand devils let loose:" John French, British sapper
2. "Young men . . . helping this nation to save its soul:" Phillip T. Cate, American ambulance driver
3. "Behind barbed wire in . . . a stable for men:" Willy Wolff, German internee in Britain
4. "A year . . . such as I can never hope to have again:" James D. Hutchison, ANZAC artilleryman
5. "Life has been spent among the dead:" Henri Desagneaux, French infantry officer
6. "Hunger was stronger than all punishments:" Felix Kaufmann, German POW in France
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