BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot editions 1922. - Lot 885

BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot editions 1922. "Collection de mémoires, études & documents pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre mondiale". "UNE ANGLAISE à BERLIN - NOTES INTIMES de la PRINCESSE BLUCHER, on EVENTS, POLITICS & DAILY LIFE in Germany during the WAR & the SOCIAL REVOLUTION in 1918". 341 pages + full-page portrait photo of the Princess, translated by Henriette Cavaignac. A very interesting account of this courageous woman in a very difficult position, Englishwoman who became German through her marriage to Prince BLUCHER. Everyday life in Germany between 1914 and 1918, her tug-of-war between her duty of loyalty to her native country and her adopted country, German opinion of her, of England, of the world conflict, recorded day by day... "...unable to correspond with her mother, she undertook to write down a diary for her every evening of what she had learned during her forced stay in the enemy capital. It is this diary, kept without gaps, from the first days of the war to the weeks following the revolution, which forms the subject of this volume..."