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The Comedy of Charleroi, and Other Stories

The Comedy of Charleroi, and Other Stories

Douglas Gallagher
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The Comedy of Charleroi is a short story collection consisting of six loosely connected stories based on the author's experiences as a soldier during World War I.

So began the battle of Charleroi, Belgium, August 21, 1914, in the first month of the Great War. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, a 21-year-old, inexperienced French officer, was at first exhilarated, a fighting man at last, and then chastened by a shrapnel wound. Returning to the lines weeks later he was wounded again. After recovering from that he and other French soldiers joined the British in the Dardanelles, from which he was evacuated with amoebic dysentery. Recovered from that he joined a regiment at the Battle of Verdun to be so seriously wounded he was removed from active service. This slender volume of short-story/memoirs is his looking back at some of the events, the men he knew, the ideas and emotions that swept through him
Language
English
Pages
214
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Rivers Press
Release
October 25, 1973
ISBN
0903747030
ISBN 13
9780903747035

The Comedy of Charleroi, and Other Stories

Douglas Gallagher
3.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The Comedy of Charleroi is a short story collection consisting of six loosely connected stories based on the author's experiences as a soldier during World War I.

So began the battle of Charleroi, Belgium, August 21, 1914, in the first month of the Great War. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, a 21-year-old, inexperienced French officer, was at first exhilarated, a fighting man at last, and then chastened by a shrapnel wound. Returning to the lines weeks later he was wounded again. After recovering from that he and other French soldiers joined the British in the Dardanelles, from which he was evacuated with amoebic dysentery. Recovered from that he joined a regiment at the Battle of Verdun to be so seriously wounded he was removed from active service. This slender volume of short-story/memoirs is his looking back at some of the events, the men he knew, the ideas and emotions that swept through him
Language
English
Pages
214
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Rivers Press
Release
October 25, 1973
ISBN
0903747030
ISBN 13
9780903747035

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