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Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War by Jean-Yves Le Naour

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Item specifics

Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
Era
1910s
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780805075229

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805075224
ISBN-13
9780805075229
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30512507

Product Key Features

Original Language
French
Book Title
Living Unknown Soldier : a Story of Grief and the Great War
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Veterans, Military / General, General
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
History
Author
Jean-Yves Le Naour
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-040276
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A remarkable book about the Great War,The Living Unknown Soldiertakes one small episode and makes it a prism through which to see the entire catastrophe which so shaped the world we inherited. Readers who thought they already knew every possible angle of vision on this war will be surprised and fascinated." --Adam Hochschild, author ofKing Leopold's Ghost "The Living Unknown Soldieris more than just the extraordinary and engrossing story of a lost soul who came to symbolize the horror, grief, and ineffable sadness of World War I. It is an intimate window on the madness of our modern times." --John Dower, author ofEmbracing Defeat, "A remarkable book about the Great War, The Living Unknown Soldier takes one small episode and makes it a prism through which to see the entire catastrophe which so shaped the world we inherited. Readers who thought they already knew every possible angle of vision on this war will be surprised and fascinated." --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost "The Living Unknown Soldier is more than just the extraordinary and engrossing story of a lost soul who came to symbolize the horror, grief, and ineffable sadness of World War I. It is an intimate window on the madness of our modern times." --John Dower, author of Embracing Defeat
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Dewey Decimal
940.4/1244/092 B
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The powerful story of a soldier who lost his memory and identity, and of a people in mourning who found in him their own missing men In February 1918, a derelict soldier was discovered wandering the railway station in Lyon, France. With no memory of his name or past, no identifying possessions, marks, or documents, the soldier-given the name Anthelme Mangin-was sent to an asylum for the insane. When, after the Great War ended, the authorities placed the soldier's image in advertisements to locate his family, hundreds of "relatives" claimed him-as their father, son, husband, or brother who had failed to return from the front. Marshaling a vast array of original material, from letters and newspaper articles to accounts of battlefield deaths, hospital reports, and police files, French historian Jean-Yves Le Naour meticulously re-creates the long-forgotten story of the single soldier who came to stand for a lost generation. With humane sympathy and the skill of a novelist, Le Naour recounts the twenty-year court battles waged by the families competing to take the amnesiac soldier home. In the process, he portrays not just the fate of one individual but the rank and file's experience in the trenches and an entire nation's great and inconsolable grief following a war that consumed the lives of one million men. Dramatic, taut, and powerfully relevant to our own times, this heartrending history depicts the pain and turmoil of a society that, without bodies to bury, is caught between holding on and letting go., The powerful story of a soldier who lost his memory and identity, and of a people in mourning who found in him their own missing men., Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in hardware and software and in computer theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributorswith a medium in which they can examine their subjects in greater depth and breadth than that allowed by standard journal articles. As a result, many articles have become standard references that continue to be of significant, lasting value despite the rapid growth taking place in the field.
LC Classification Number
DC373.M2356L413 2004

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