The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
by
Louis Barthas
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest...