Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries from the Great War

ISBN-13: 9780190902353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Marilyn Shevin Coetzee; Frans Coetzee

Opis

This book presents six recently discovered diaries, almost all of which are previously unpublished. It provides an intimate look at how ordinary soldiers and civilians from five countries experienced and reflected upon the physical and psychological strains of the First World War.

Recenzje

Shevin-Coetzee and Coetzee have assembled a well-balanced collection of six riveting personal journals from WWI, including those of an American ambulance driver, a German internee on the Isle of Man, a French lawyer turned infantry officer, an English sapper, a German machine gunner captured and held in France, and an ANZAC artillery soldier who described the landings at Gallipoli....Generous commentary about each diarist, plus informative footnotes, makes this collection especially valuable.

O autorze

Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee have taught at Yale and George Washington Universities and have been the recipients of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Alexander von Humboldt, Fulbright, and Mellon Foundations, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are the authors of seven books, including The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook (OUP, 2010).