Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Beston and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Sheahan and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Beston was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1925. After graduating from Harvard, Beston began teaching at the University of Lyon. Beston joined the French army in 1915 and served as an ambulance driver. Beston's first book A Volunteer Poilu describes his service in le Bois le Pretre and at the Battle of Verdun. Other books by Beston include Full Speed Ahead (1919), The Firelight Fairy Book (1919), The Starlight Wonder Book (1921), Book of Gallant Vagabonds (1925), The Sons of Kai (1926), and The Living Age (1921)
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Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Beston Sheahan and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1916. Personal narrative. World War I.
Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu written by Beston Henry and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu WWI Centenary Series written by Henry Beston and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""I have ventured to call this book A Volunteer Poilu principally because we were known to the soldiers of the Bois-le-Pretre as ""les Poilus Americains."" Then, too, it was my ambition to do for my comrades, the French private soldiers, what other books have done for the soldiers of other armies. The title chosen, however, was more than complimentary; it was but just. In recognition of the work of the Section during the summer, it was, in October, 1915, formally adopted into the French army; a French officer became its administrative head, and the drivers were given the same papers, pay, and discipline as their French comrades. I wish to thank many of my old friends of Section II, who have aided me in the writing of this book."" This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context."
Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu written by Henry Beston and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu Classic Reprint written by Henry Beston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Volunteer Poilu Paris, rain, and darkness The Gardens of the Tuileries The dormitory The hospital at night Beginning Of the Cham pagne Offensive The Gare de la Chapelle at two in the morning -the wounded The Zouave stretcher-bearers The Arabs in the abandoned school Suburban Paris at dawn The home of the deaconesses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Volunteer Poilu Illustrated Edition written by Henry Beston Sheahan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with a number of photographs from the French Front Lines in and around Verdun. Also Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps. Henry Beston Sheahan was a noted American novelist and naturist who wrote many well-known books, including the Cape Cod classic The Outermost House; he volunteered for service in the French Army during the First World War. In volunteer Poilu he recounts his experiences in the American Ambulance Service in the evacuating casualties in and around Verdun during 1916. In the midst of the bloodiest prolonged siege in the world at that time the number of wounded French soldiers were prodigious; the Ambulance services needed every able body even if they did come from the neutral United States. In spite of the huge workload that Sheahan undertook he managed to scribble notes of scenes and anecdotes of the great battle and the soldiers of the French Army. A rare and movingly written memoir from the Great Battle of Verdun.
Download or read book Gentlemen Volunteers written by Arlen J. Hansen and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen. The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World War is one of gallantry amid gore; manners amid madness. Arlen J. Hansen’s Gentlemen Volunteers brings to life the entire story of the men—and women—who formed the first ambulance corps, and who went on to redefine American culture. Some were to become legends—Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Malcolm Cowley, and Walt Disney—but all were part of a generation seeking something greater and grander than what they could find at home. The war in France beckoned them, promising glory, romance, and escape. Between 1914 and 1917 (when the United States officially entered the war), they volunteered by the thousands, abandoning college campuses and prep schools across the nation and leaving behind an America determined not to be drawn into a “European war.” What the volunteers found in France was carnage on an unprecedented scale. Here is a spellbinding account of a remarkable time; the legacy of the ambulance drivers of WWI endures to this day.
Download or read book The Smell of War written by Virginia Bernhard and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Virginia Bernhard has deftly woven together the memoirs and letters of three American soldiers—Henry Sheahan, Mike Hogg, and George Wythe—to capture a vivid, poignant portrayal of what it was like to be “over there.” These firsthand recollections focus the lens of history onto one small corner of the war, into one small battlefield, and in doing so they reveal new perspectives on the horrors of trench warfare, life in training camps, transportation and the impact of technology, and the post-armistice American army of occupation. Henry Sheahan’s memoir, A Volunteer Poilu, was first published in 1916. He was a Boston-born, Harvard-educated ambulance driver for the French army who later became a well-known New England nature writer, taking a family name “Beston” as his surname. George Wythe, from Weatherford, Texas, was a descendant of the George Wythe who signed the Declaration of Independence. Mike Hogg, born in Tyler, Texas, was the son of former Texas governor James Stephen Hogg. The Smell of War, by collecting and annotating the words of these three individuals, paints a new and revealing literary portrait of the Great War and those who served in it.
Download or read book The Verdun Regiment written by Johnathan Bracken and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online
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Download or read book History of the American Field Service in France Friends of France 1914 1917 The camion section Literature of the field service Introduction sketches Poems p 242 307 Humorous sketches Lighter verse End of the war sketches and verses Appendices written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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