Monthly Archives: January 2015

Words of endurance: A Passionate Prodigality

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Jenny

This is one of a series about memoirs, novels, and poems authored by combatants of the First World War. All page numbers shown below refer to Guy Chapman, A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography. Fawcett Crest Books: Greenwich, CT, 1966. … Continue reading →

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Words of endurance: Russian Hussar

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Jenny

This is one of a series about memoirs, novels, and poems authored by combatants of the First World War. All page numbers shown below refer to Vladimir Littauer’s Russian Hussar, Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing, 1993. On July 24, 1915, … Continue reading →

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Words of endurance: Notebooks of Louis Barthas

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Jenny

This is one of a series about memoirs, novels, and poems authored by combatants of the First World War. The full title of  this particular memoir is Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918. “Poilu” is … Continue reading →

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