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Author Pellissier, Robert E. (Robert Edouard), 1882-1916.

Title A good idea of hell : letters from a chasseur à pied / Joshua Brown, editor ; foreword by Leonard V. Smith
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Texas A & M University military history series ; 83
Texas A & M University military history series ; 83.
Contents En route -- Besancon -- Vosges -- Wounded -- Resting -- St.-Maixent -- Alsace -- Munster/Colmar -- Somme -- A tribute by his sister -- A colleague's tribute -- The Pellissier memorial -- Time line of events in letters
Summary "Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot solider - a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the United States and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted months of trench warfare in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace, the only region where French troops actually captured German territory, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature."
"Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire with three thousand German shells falling on the French troops every day to the monotony of long quiet hours spent in cold, wet trenches. He writes of the grinding and indecisive character of the fighting in the Vosges and of the almost ritualistic shelling and limited tactical offensives, such as the attack at Steinbach in December 1914. His later letters were written from the hospital, from officer training school, and from the front at the Somme. He relays news of all the major battlefields - Flanders, Verdun, Russia, Austria, Gallipoli, Italy, Serbia, and the Suez
He also comments on the new technology that changed the nature of war: the machine gun, new airplanes, U-boats, improved artillery, barbed wire, and poison gases." "Drama and a sympathetic human voice combine to make this account of a little-reported French front a valuable addition to the literature on World War I."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pellissier, Robert E. (Robert Edouard), 1882-1916 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Pellissier, Robert E. (Robert Edouard), 1882-1916 fast
Pellissier, Robert E. (Robert Edouard), 1882-1916 -- Correspondence. nli
Subject France. Armée -- Non-commissioned officers -- Correspondence
SUBJECT France. Armée fast
France. Armée -- Non-commissioned officers -- Correspondence. nli
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, French
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Personal narratives
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Armed Forces -- Non-commissioned officers
Military campaigns
Weltkrieg 1914-1918
Erlebnisbericht
Heer
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, French.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
Frankreich
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Personal narratives
Personal narratives
Personal correspondence
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Joshua, 1956-
LC no. 2002013492
ISBN 1585448672
9781585448678
9781603446754
1603446753
1299052800
9781299052802