Paul Lintier

My .75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a .75m/m Battery in 1914, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspr nglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel ""My .75 Reminiscences of a Gunner of a .75m/m Battery in 1914"". Es wurde jetzt von Writat f r seine franz sischsprachigen Leser in die franz sische Sprache bersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns die Bewahrung des literarischen Erbes der Vergangenheit am Herzen. Wir haben dieses Buch ins Franz sische bersetzt, damit heutige und zuk nftige Generationen es lesen und bewahren k nnen.

Ce livre classique a t initialement publi il y a plusieurs d cennies sous le titre ""My .75 Reminiscences of a Gunner of a .75m/m Battery in 1914"". Il a maintenant t traduit par Writat en langue fran aise pour ses lecteurs francophones. Chez Writat, nous sommes passionn s par la pr servation du patrimoine litt raire du pass . Nous avons traduit ce livre en fran ais afin que les g n rations pr sentes et futures puissent le lire et le pr server.

This is the exact account in French of Lintier's war, written day by day in the notebook that was removed from his dead body by his comrades in arms. Paul Lintier was killed on March 15th 1916 by shrapnel.

Paul Lintier was a promising French writer. In 1913 he joined the French army and was thus involved in the fighting on the Western Front from the very start of the war. This diary covers the first two months of the war, a period in which Lintier took part in the advance to the French frontiers, entered combat just inside southern Belgium, then took part in the long French retreat, the move to the Marne, the battle of the Marne itself and the stalemate on the Aisne. There are very few works that cover the French experience of this period. This ranks as one of the finest Great War memoirs by a soldier of any army.

Paul Lintier was a promising French writer. In 1913 he joined the French army and was thus involved in the fighting on the Western Front from the very start of the war. This diary covers the first two months of the war, a period in which Lintier took part in the advance to the French frontiers, entered combat just inside southern Belgium, then took part in the long French retreat, the move to the Marne, the battle of the Marne itself and the stalemate on the Aisne. There are very few works that cover the French experience of this period. This ranks as one of the finest Great War memoirs by a soldier of any army.

Despite the huge contribution of the French Army towards the Allied war effort during the Great War, curiously little has been published in English concerning it. Thus, Helion are pleased to bring back into print one of the finest Great War memoirs by a soldier of any army, the journal of French gunner Paul Lintier, covering the tumultuous events of August and September 1914. A talented young writer (he had already had three small books published before the outbreak of war), Lintier served in the French 44th Artillery Regiment from 1913 until his death at the front in 1916. His account covers the outbreak of war, mobilisation, his unit's first clash with the Germans at Virton on 22 August, the subsequent British and French withdrawal culminating in the 'miracle of the Marne', and the Battle of the Aisne, ending with his wounding during the latter battle on 22 September. Beautifully written, his account conveys, amongst other things, the little-known French experience of the discouraging and exhausting retreat from the advancing Germans, as well as the strains experienced by men and horses at the limits of their endurance. The fact that Lintier wrote it as a daily journal provides a fresh immediacy missing in many later accounts. A further posthumous volume of memoirs covering his service during 1915 and 1916 (until his death in action) was also published in French, and Helion hope to issue a translation of this in due course.