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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Living Unknown Soldierdi Jean-Yves Le Naour
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Une enquête humaine au cœur d'une préoccupation de historien, l'homme dans l'histoire. ( ) Interesting, but a bit tedious at times. One gets the impression that this would have made a much better academic paper than an entire book; many chapters are devoted to an in-depth examination of the trials surrounding the amnesiac. The really important stuff comes much earlier on, when Le Naour discusses postwar french culture and the proofs of grief ubiquitous in it. The amnesiac is interesting, and it is great to finally see how his story ends, but there is a lot of fluff here. All in all an interesting, quick read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)940.4History and Geography Europe Europe Military History Of World War IClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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