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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815276303321

Autore

Coetzee Marilyn Shevin <1955->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

0-19-933609-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

940.4/81

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918

War diaries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""5 “Life has been spent among the deadâ€?:  Henri Desagneaux, French infantry officer""""6 “Hunger was stronger than all punishmentsâ€?:  Felix Kaufmann, German POW in France""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Internet Resources""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee provide just such an ""intimate look"" by bringing together previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and restoring to publication the diary of a sixth that