Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire by Walter Dean Myers &

by Walter Dean Myers & Bill Miles

and the Eiffel Tower hummed at all hours relaying messages to and from the front

While many studies have addressed the national or transnational narrative of women in the war

Many hoped to keep to the moral high ground

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire by Walter Dean Myers &Description by Louis Barthas Paperback The harrowing first person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty five year old barrel maker from a small wine growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near ceaseless combat, wherever the French army