02665nam 2200601 450 991081527630332120230807215730.00-19-933609-1(CKB)3710000000417119(EBL)2058236(OCoLC)910237658(SSID)ssj0001497432(PQKBManifestationID)12629839(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497432(PQKBWorkID)11495118(PQKB)11048550(MiAaPQ)EBC2058236(Au-PeEL)EBL2058236(CaPaEBR)ebr11056952(CaONFJC)MIL788864(EXLCZ)99371000000041711920150602h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCommitment and sacrifice personal diaries from the Great War /Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans CoetzeeNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-933608-3 0-19-933607-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""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Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee provide just such an ""intimate look"" by bringing together previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and restoring to publication the diary of a sixth thatWorld War, 1914-1918Personal narrativesWorld War, 1914-1918SourcesWar diariesWorld War, 1914-1918World War, 1914-1918War diaries.940.4/81Coetzee Marilyn Shevin1955-1643282Coetzee Frans1955-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815276303321Commitment and sacrifice4050604UNINA