Ten Billion Letters
David Coward: Artilleur Pireaud writes home, 21 June 2007
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War
by Martha Hanna.
Harvard, 341 pp., £17.95, November 2006,0 674 02318 8 Show More
by Martha Hanna.
Harvard, 341 pp., £17.95, November 2006,
“... before it got better, with the arrival of American troops in numbers in the summer of 1918. For Martha Hanna, however, to look at those years only through the usual ‘wide-angled lens’ is to miss crucial dimensions of the human reality underlying the war effort. The French were sorely tried. The jingoism of 1914 was followed by quiet confidence in ... ”