Bruno Cabanes: 3 books

On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military...

The aftermath of the Great War brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. They were also the stateless, the children who suffered war's consequences, and later the victims of the great Russian...

Pour nous qui savons la suite, lorsque nous considérons ces photographies d’adieu, gare de l’Est, nous sommes sidérés par l’ivresse, la joie, la fête. Tous ces jeunes garçons d’à peine 20 ans pour la plupart vont à une mort certaine, ils n’ont aucune idée de la boucherie qui les...