Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
“Poilu,” by Louis Barthas is on the greatest accounts of the War To End All Wars, and one of the few from the perspective of a French Corporal constantly assigned to the trenches. I’ve read quite a lot of books on The Great War, first hand accounts and some fail to convey the true horrors […]