Your Death Would Be Mine Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War

Name: Your Death Would Be Mine Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War
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ISBN: 9780674030510

ISBN-10: 0674030516

ISBN-13: 9780674030510

Edition: 2006

Authors: Martha Hanna

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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,…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Martha Hanna is Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder.



Introduction



How Sad the Countryside Is



Here It Is Extermination on the Ground



Oh, How I Suffered, My Poor Paul



No One Is Happy in War



We Are Martyrs of the Century


Conclusion


Notes


Index