Product Description: "Written as a young man in Sedan, in the eastern France, which was occupied by the German's in the First Wold War, Congar makes daily entries about the War. Written from the eyes of a child, the diary was found in his room in Paris after his death and published a few years later...read more

Product Description: As a founding event of the twentieth century, the Great War needed a great museum. At P,ronne, in the French department of the Somme, where men of twenty-five nationalities fought, the exceptional collections of the Historial of the Great War provide three points of view ? French, German and British ? of soldiers and civilians at the front and in the rear who shared a common, shattered destiny...read more

An analysis of the Great War looks deeply into the swirling quagmire of violence, racism, and grief stirred up by the war and traces the influence of these strong emotions on the course of European history.

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This study is based on the extraordinarily rich and varied range of trench journalism that brings to life - in the vivid language of the soldiers themselves - not only their suffering but also their vulgarity, sentimentality and idealism.