Commitment and sacrifice : personal diaries from the Great War / Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn, 1955- author.

Coetzee, Frans, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Sources.

War diaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee provide just such an ""intimate look"" by bringing together previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and restoring to publication the diary of a sixth that

Contents:

""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""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Internet Resources""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-933609-1

OCLC:

910237658