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Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War
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by Martha Hanna
Sales Rank: 53003
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Discount: 34 %
List Price: $26.95
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
Published by: Harvard University Press November 11, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674023188
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674023185
Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Paul and Marie Pireaud were a young couple from a small village southwest of Paris. They had been married only six months when World War I began, in 1914, and Paul was called up to serve in the army for almost five years. He saw action in some of France's bloodiest battles. Marie joined her parents and in-laws to tend the farm that had been left in their care, and she sometimes traveled long distances to spend time with her husband behind the lines. Their letters chronicle their daily lives, their innermost anxieties, and their abiding love. Topics as momentous as the Battle of Verdun and as mundane as the availability of dairy cattle mattered to them. They interspersed such subjects as intimate confessions of sexual longing with discussions of crop prices. Anticipating the birth of their first child (who was born in July 1916), they discussed how best to care for a pregnant woman. Their letters are a remarkable source for observing World War I from the vantage point of the French peasantry, for analyzing the impact of the conflict on rural France, and for resurrecting the human face of war. Drawing on hundreds of letters, Hanna offers a fascinating look at one peasant couple separated and in love, compelled to carry on their marriage by correspondence. George Cohen
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Booklist : [Paul and Marie Pireaud's] letters are a remarkable source for observing World War I from the vantage point of the French peasantry, for analyzing the impact of the conflict on rural France, and for resurrecting the human face of war. Drawing on hundreds of letters, Hanna offers a fascinating look at one peasant couple separated and in love, compelled to carry on their marriage by correspondence. (starred review)
--George Cohen
London Review of Books : A vivid picture of the Great War seen from below which illustrates the view, popular now for a generation or so, that it is not events but people who make historyMost of all, Hanna is struck by the way Marie and Paul reflect the modernizing impact of the war on the rural psycheThe practice of writing letters stimulated self-reflection and self-awareness and left both husband and wife better able to communicate with each other. The postwar transformation of rural France was made possible by this enforced wartime correspondence course in self-discovery.
--David Coward
Reader Reviews
Astonishingly, this book covers fresh material in the study of World War 1: not just the home front; not the French military front; but the effects of the war on a rather ordinary--but extraordinary--newlywed couple, French peasants. It is as much Marie's story as it is Paul's story, and author Hanna is wise enough to let their voices carry the story for us. That is not to say she doesn't provide context and explanation and historical perspective; she does, and excellently. The story is moving and this book is valuable and enlightening. One could wish that there were more photos or maps, but the fact that the letters themselves were preserved, and that Hanna found them and brought their value to light is really enough. This book is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and if there is any justice, it will win.
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