A Volunteer Poilu Illustrated Edition

Author : Henry Beston Sheahan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893110

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A Volunteer Poilu [Illustrated Edition] by Henry Beston Sheahan Pdf

Illustrated with a number of photographs from the French Front Lines in and around Verdun. Also Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps. Henry Beston Sheahan was a noted American novelist and naturist who wrote many well-known books, including the Cape Cod classic The Outermost House; he volunteered for service in the French Army during the First World War. In volunteer Poilu he recounts his experiences in the American Ambulance Service in the evacuating casualties in and around Verdun during 1916. In the midst of the bloodiest prolonged siege in the world at that time the number of wounded French soldiers were prodigious; the Ambulance services needed every able body even if they did come from the neutral United States. In spite of the huge workload that Sheahan undertook he managed to scribble notes of scenes and anecdotes of the great battle and the soldiers of the French Army. A rare and movingly written memoir from the Great Battle of Verdun.

Author : Henry Sheahan
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1414231652

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A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Sheahan Pdf

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author : Henry Beston Sheahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1695113659

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A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston Sheahan Pdf

Originally published in 1916. Personal narrative. World War I.

Author : Henry Sheahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1406844985

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A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Sheahan Pdf

The recollections of an American volunteer serving with the French Army in the early years of World War I.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1406552895

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A Volunteer Poilu (Dodo Press) by Henry Beston Pdf

Henry Beston Sheahan (1888-1968) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1925. He grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts and attended Adams Academy in Quincy before earning his B.A. (1909) and M.A. (1911) from Harvard College. After leaving Harvard, Beston took up teaching at University of Lyon. In 1914 he returned to Harvard as an English department assistant. Beston joined the French army in 1915 and served as an ambulance driver. His service in le Bois le Pretre and at the Battle of Verdun was described in his first book, A Volunteer Poilu (1916). Following the end of World War I, Beston began writing fairy tales under the name "Henry Beston." In 1919, The Firelight Fairy Book was published, followed by The Starlight Wonder Book in 1923. During this time, he worked as an editor of The Living Age, an offshoot of The Atlantic Monthly.

Author : William Yorke Stevenson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893493

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From "Poilu" To "Yank," [Illustrated Edition] by William Yorke Stevenson Pdf

Contains 17 illustrations that the author took whilst in France. William Yorke Stevenson was one of a hardy bunch of American volunteers who joined the French army as an ambulance driver and was, indeed, a driving force behind American aid for the many wounded soldiers. As he was initially posted to the Verdun sector he would see the effects of some of the worst fighting on the entire Western Front which he recounted in his first book “At the Front in a Flivver”. His experiences continue in this volume which carries the action into 1917 and the further bloody battles that the French undertook to retake the ground lost to the Germans in 1916. Needless to say the casualties were horrific and Stevenson and his unit would show great courage in ferrying the injured from the frontlines to the hospitals in the rear. With the entrance of the United States into the lists on the Allied side, Stevenson and his men found themselves part of the official American effort, and passed from being a “Poilu” (a traditional name for a French infantryman - literally “hairy one”) to a “Yank”. A vivid and well-written account of service in the American Ambulance Corps with the French during the First World War.

Author : Herbert Ward
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893332

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Mr. Poilu; Notes And Sketches With The Fighting French [Illustrated Edition] by Herbert Ward Pdf

Illustrated with 45 pictures and vignettes many in colour. Herbert Ward was a patriotic and passionate Englishman at an unfortunate juncture in his life during the First World War, he was over 40 and would not be allowed to enlist in the British Army for service in the fields of Flanders under ordinary circumstances. However this was a minor issue when the Kaiser’s German hordes advanced to within artillery range of his home in France; he at once gave over his large estate to the Red Cross and argued and created so much fuss that he was finally allowed to join the famous No. 3 Convoy of the British Ambulance Committee. He worked with at a furious rate and his work with the units, which was attached to the French army at the time, surely saved many lives of the “Poilus” that he so admired. Despite the huge burdens that work placed him under he set about recording the admirable bravery and courage of the Allied French soldiers fighting the common German foe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2134 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Publishers' catalogs
ISBN : SRLF:D0003538113

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The Publishers' Trade List Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547322030

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A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston Pdf

'A Volunteer Poilu' is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences fighting on behalf of France as an American during World War I. The author, Henry Beston, was involved in the Battle of Verdun and Bois-le-Prêtre fighting, with the latter having been a skirmish between his infantry division and that of the Germans.

Author : Carroll Dana Winslow
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782891208

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With The French Flying Corps [Illustrated Edition] by Carroll Dana Winslow Pdf

“Petite bleu to pilote-a young American’s flight into war The author of this book, Dana Winslow, was a young American in Paris as France recruited men to fight the invading German forces of the Kaiser at the outbreak of the First World War. Feeling strongly for the plight and cause of the French, he immediately went to Les Invalides and there enlisted in the French Flying Corps as a trainee pilot. This vital first hand account is an essential source work of the period which reveals the training of the earliest French military aviators of the great conflict on the Western Front and it follows Winslow on his ‘rite of passage’ from inexperienced civilian, to lowly and little regarded aeronautical student (petit bleu) through his first perilous days in the combat zone to his time as an experienced and much prized pilote in the hostile skies over the trenches of the front lines. As may be expected, Winslow takes us to his war of dogfights, mid-air collisions, artillery spotting and reconnaissance in vivid-if humbly recounted-detail. Winslow’s book is especially valuable as an insight into the variety of aircraft employed by the French during his time with them and he provides useful details as to their construction, abilities, applications and flying characteristics such-as those of the peculiar ‘cut down’ Bleriot that was ‘the Penguin.’ He also gives an interesting view of the business of military flying in wartime, which he distinguishes as entirely separate from piloting, as he describes it, as a mere ‘conductor.’ Accounts of battling in the air during the Great War are not common, so this volume is, of course, a welcome addition to their limited number and will be of interest to everyone interested in the subject.”—Leonaur Print Version. Author — Winslow, Carroll Dana. Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in New York, C. Scribner’s sons, 1917. Original Page Count – xi and 226 pages Illustration — 15 illustrations.

Author : Herbert David Croly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015086341404

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The New Republic by Herbert David Croly Pdf

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406552887

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The Firelight Fairy Book (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by Henry Beston Pdf

Henry Beston Sheahan (1888-1968) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1925. He grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts and attended Adams Academy in Quincy before earning his B.A. (1909) and M.A. (1911) from Harvard College. After leaving Harvard, Beston took up teaching at University of Lyon. In 1914 he returned to Harvard as an English department assistant. Beston joined the French army in 1915 and served as an ambulance driver. His service in le Bois le Pretre and at the Battle of Verdun was described in his first book, A Volunteer Poilu (1916). Following the end of World War I, Beston began writing fairy tales under the name "Henry Beston." In 1919, The Firelight Fairy Book was published, followed by The Starlight Wonder Book in 1923. During this time, he worked as an editor of The Living Age, an offshoot of The Atlantic Monthly.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433105357655

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The Nation [Electronic Resource] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Current events
ISBN : MINN:319510013552328

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The Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Sheahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Transport of sick and wounded
ISBN : UCAL:$B263295

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A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Sheahan Pdf