Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries from the Great War

by Marilyn Shevin Coetzee, Frans Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee

For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading participants. However, those accounts offered little by way of the intimate history, or the individual experiences of those involved in the Great War. In Commitment and Sacrifice, Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee provide just such an "intimate look" by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199336075
• ISBN13: 9780199336074
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.6"