Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire and as a woman whose

and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure

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

On the night of March 18

When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914

by Walter Dean Myers & Bill Miles

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire and as a woman whoseDescription 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