Your Death Would Be Mine : : Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War / / Martha Hanna.

• VerfasserIn: Hanna, Martha,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• ONE. How Sad the Countryside Is
• TWO. Here It Is Extermination on the Ground
• THREE. Oh, How I Suffered, My Poor Paul
• FOUR. No One Is Happy in War
• FIVE. We Are Martyrs of the Century
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index