Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier--a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the United States and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted months of trench warfare in the Vosges mountains of Alsace, the only region where French troops actually captured German territory, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature. Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of...
Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier--a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier,...
Set in 1961, Katie, the central character of this story, is facing a summer full of conflict. Her father has arranged two awful babysitting jobs for her and, worse still, she has been forcibly inducted into a dreadful girl scout troop by her friend's clueless mother.
Set in 1961, Katie, the central character of this story, is facing a summer full of conflict. Her father has arranged two awful babysitting jobs for h...
