Fighting France
From Dunkerque to Belport
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2010
- Category
- World War I, Essays, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781843914518
- Publish Date
- Apr 2010
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
As nuanced in her observations of human behavior as she is in her vivid depictions of French landscape and architecture, Wharton fully exploited her unique position as consort to Walter Barry, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which allowed her unparalleled access to life in the trenches. Sensitive without sentimentality, and offering a valuable and extremely rare female perspective of a war dominated by the male viewpoint, this Series of articles is nothing less than an inspirational testament to the strength of the human spirit at a time of the greatest adversity.
About the authors
COLM TOIBIN is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and essayist. He is currently Mellon Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.
