Author: Alan Seeger
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782893326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
“I HAVE a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair” The above unfortunately prophetic lines were written by the famed war poet Alan Seeger months before his death at the hands of German fire during the infamous slaughter of the battle of the Somme whilst serving in the French Foreign Legion. He saw a great deal of fighting in his two years with the French, indeed some of the worst of it as the Legion was posted many times to the most exposed parts of the lines. His diary entries are a strange mixture of his service under heavy fire with his common fellow poilus, which he faced so stoically despite having a heavy premonition of his own death, and his poetic insights into daily life. Well-known and well-liked by his colleagues they set about collecting his notes and poems into this memorial volume to commemorate his achievements in the French army and his literary attainments.
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger ...
Author: Alan Seeger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Poems
Author: Alan Seeger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781018107714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781018107714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger, 1917 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Alan Seeger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331104353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger, 1917 Those who have read the published poems of Alan Seeger and the sympathetic sketch of his life by Mr. William Archer, in his introduction, cannot have failed to appreciate the motives that led the young American, in his great love for France and her cause, to take up arms in her behalf as a common soldier in the ranks of the Foreign Legion. But it is one thing to yield to a generous impulse and quite another to adhere faithfully to a high resolve through wretched and tiresome hours of unaccustomed hardship and distasteful surroundings. In these pages, written from day to day and from week to week, unchanged and unpolished by afterthought, in the endeavor to make them appear nobler and more consistent than they were when first set down in diary or intimate letter, - no word will be found, either of complaint, of wavering or of discouragement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331104353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger, 1917 Those who have read the published poems of Alan Seeger and the sympathetic sketch of his life by Mr. William Archer, in his introduction, cannot have failed to appreciate the motives that led the young American, in his great love for France and her cause, to take up arms in her behalf as a common soldier in the ranks of the Foreign Legion. But it is one thing to yield to a generous impulse and quite another to adhere faithfully to a high resolve through wretched and tiresome hours of unaccustomed hardship and distasteful surroundings. In these pages, written from day to day and from week to week, unchanged and unpolished by afterthought, in the endeavor to make them appear nobler and more consistent than they were when first set down in diary or intimate letter, - no word will be found, either of complaint, of wavering or of discouragement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Rendezvous with Death
Author: David Hanna
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621575446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621575446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger, 1917
Author: Alan Seeger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243707102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243707102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger (Classic Reprint)
Author: Alan Seeger
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528284301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger Hour of battle, for which he longs. Even when cramped in the trenches, this lover of beauty can take keen pleasure in an occasional glimpse of a picturesque vista through the c'reneaux; nor, when his endurance is taxed to the utmost to hold out until the end of a march that lays low many a stronger man among his comrades, does he fail to remember and record the sunlit verdure of the meadows bordering the dusty road along which he toils, with heavy burden, weary almost to the point of dropping. In the lonely vigils of sentry duty, during the hours between night and dawn, when the most cou rageous feel spirit and hope at the lowest ebb, he can find consolation in a kind of comrade ship with the stars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528284301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger Hour of battle, for which he longs. Even when cramped in the trenches, this lover of beauty can take keen pleasure in an occasional glimpse of a picturesque vista through the c'reneaux; nor, when his endurance is taxed to the utmost to hold out until the end of a march that lays low many a stronger man among his comrades, does he fail to remember and record the sunlit verdure of the meadows bordering the dusty road along which he toils, with heavy burden, weary almost to the point of dropping. In the lonely vigils of sentry duty, during the hours between night and dawn, when the most cou rageous feel spirit and hope at the lowest ebb, he can find consolation in a kind of comrade ship with the stars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger
Author: Alan Seeger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
LETTERS AND DIARY OF ALAN SEEGER
Author: ALAN. SEEGER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033089255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033089255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elihu Washburne
Author: Elihu Benjamin Washburne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451665288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Draws on first-person diaries and letters to trace the pivotal contributions of the American diplomat throughout the Franco-Prussian war, documenting his efforts to provide supplies to Americans and other nationals.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451665288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Draws on first-person diaries and letters to trace the pivotal contributions of the American diplomat throughout the Franco-Prussian war, documenting his efforts to provide supplies to Americans and other nationals.
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description