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

• Autore: Coetzee Marilyn Shevin <1955->
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.4/81
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918; War diaries
• Persona (resp. second.): CoetzeeFrans <1955->
• 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Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee provide just such an ""intimate look"" by bringing together previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and restoring to publication the diary of a sixth that
• Titolo autorizzato: Commitment and sacrifice
• ISBN: 0-19-933609-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815276303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II