A French Soldier's War Diary 1914-1918

A pattern has been given to the history of the events between 1914 and 1918 which is called the 'Great War'. To Henri Desagneaux and to thousands of others, there was no pattern to be seen from the trenches where he executed orders which ensured that dozens of men had to die attempting to achieve impossible objectives worked out at a headquarters in the rear. His diary, one of the classic French accounts of the conflict, gives a vivid insight into what it was like to execute those orders, and to live in the trenches with increasingly demoralized, unruly and mutinous men. In terse unflinching prose he records their experiences as they confronted the acute dangers of the front line. The appalling conditions in which they fought and the sheer intensity of the shellfire and the close-quarter combat have rarely been conveyed with such immediacy.

---

Some books that may interest you

Rommel in North Africa By: David Mitchelhill-Green	RAF West Malling By: Anthony J Moor	Escaping Hitler By: Phyllida Scrivens
Survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki By: Jim Brigginshaw	Strike from the Air By: Terry C Treadwell	Trench Warfare 1850-1950 By: Anthony Saunders
Fighting for the News By: Brian Best	Daring Raids of World War Two: Heroic Land, Sea and Air Attacks By: Peter Jacobs	Ancient Battle Formations By: Justin Swanton