BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot éditions 1930. - Lot 892

BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot éditions 1930. "Collection de mémoires, études & documents pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre mondiale". "ORAGES D' ACIER - SOUVENIRS du FRONT de FRANCE -" by ERNST JUNGER, War Volunteer, Lieutenant-Commander of an Assault Detachment. 269 pages translated from German by F. Grenier, Lt Colonel d'Infanterie breveté E.M. The war as seen from the German side by an enlisted man who served for 4 years on the French front, 14 times wounded; invaluable testimony to what combatants on both sides saw and endured, and to the state of mind and mentality of German officers. A precise work written according to his "road book", which the author made a point of keeping regularly, whatever the circumstances. Orainville, de Bazancourt à Hattonchatel, les Eparges, Douchy & Monchy, combat de chaque jour dans le guerre des tranchées, Prélude de la bataille de la Somme, Guillemont, Au bois de saint Pierre Vaast, Retraite de la somme, Dans le village de Fresnoy, Contre les Hindous, Langemarck, Régniéville, Encore les Flandres, Bataille de Cambrai, Sur le ruisseau de Cojeul, La grande bataille, les anglais gagnent du terrain, mon dernier assaut.