Wooden Crosses - Softcover

Dorgeles, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1419194860 ISBN 13: 9781419194863

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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About the Author:

Roland Dorgelès (1885 - 1973) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris. A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses ("Les croix de bois"), a moving study of World War I, in which he served. It was published in 1919 (in English by William Heinemann in 1920). Dorgelès served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers and musicians.

Synopsis:

Ricordeau, who had been sitting at the entrance to the dug-out, rushed out, and without paying any heed to the bullets whining about him he leaped on a pile of sandbags and looked out over the parapet: it was the attack. Little flaky bombs were bursting in the fields, and already shells were arriving, exploding in thick clouds. Going to earth under the salvoes, then starting off again, our men were charging. Dispersed, scattered, like crumbs, they were so tiny that they appeared lost in that immense plain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1419194860
• ISBN 13: 9781419194863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276