Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War: 0 - Softcover

Hanna, Martha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674030516 ISBN 13: 9780674030510

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2008

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Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War

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Críticas:

"[The Pireauds'] letters are a remarkable source for observing World War I from the vantage point of the French peasantry, for analyzing the impact of the conflict on rural France, and for resurrecting the human face of war." - George Cohen, Booklist (starred review) "A vivid picture of the Great War seen from below which illustrates the view, popular now for a generation or so, that it is not events but people who make history... Most of all, Hanna is struck by the way Marie and Paul reflect the modernizing impact of the war on the rural psyche." - David Coward, London Review of Books"

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Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 through 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote, Martha Hanna tells their moving story and reveals a powerful and personal perspective on war. Civilians and combatants alike maintained bonds of emotional commitment and suffered the inevitable miseries of extended absence. While under direct fire at Verdun, Paul wrote with equal intensity and poetic clarity of the brutality of battle and the dietary needs (as he understood them) of his pregnant wife. Marie, in turn, described the difficulties of working the family farm and caring for a sick infant, lamented the deaths of local men, and longed for the safe return of her husband. Through intimate avowals and careful observations, their letters reveal how war transformed their lives, reinforced their love, and permanently altered the character of rural France. Overwhelmed by one of the most tumultuous upheavals of the modern age, Paul and Marie found solace in family and strength in passion. Theirs is a human story of loneliness and longing, fear in the face of death, and the consolations of love. Your Death Would Be Mine is a poignant tale of ordinary people coping with the trauma of war.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0674030516
• ISBN 13: 9780674030510
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352