Author: Michelle Love
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy romance at a terrific discount. Falling for a bad boy was a bad idea. But what I ended up doing was even worse. It was my last year of college, and I needed money fast. With no prior experience with any job, I was stuck. Thankfully a friend told me about an exclusive club for billionaires where I could make lots of cash quick. So I joined and that same night I was offered more money than I could ever imagine by one of the members. I saw his profile and with no hesitation we agreed to meet the next day. He was one hunk of a man and was built like a beast, tall, muscular with dark green eyes. At the club, I was given my first contract, and I signed it carelessly. That was my biggest mistake. I signed up to satisfy his deepest desires in bed. Not fake marry him and have his baby! Keywords: Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after. billionaire, bad boy, office romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero. free book, free novels, romantic novels, and sexually romantic books.
Filthy Commitments
Author: Michelle Love
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy romance at a terrific discount. Falling for a bad boy was a bad idea. But what I ended up doing was even worse. It was my last year of college, and I needed money fast. With no prior experience with any job, I was stuck. Thankfully a friend told me about an exclusive club for billionaires where I could make lots of cash quick. So I joined and that same night I was offered more money than I could ever imagine by one of the members. I saw his profile and with no hesitation we agreed to meet the next day. He was one hunk of a man and was built like a beast, tall, muscular with dark green eyes. At the club, I was given my first contract, and I signed it carelessly. That was my biggest mistake. I signed up to satisfy his deepest desires in bed. Not fake marry him and have his baby! Keywords: Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after. billionaire, bad boy, office romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero. free book, free novels, romantic novels, and sexually romantic books.
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy romance at a terrific discount. Falling for a bad boy was a bad idea. But what I ended up doing was even worse. It was my last year of college, and I needed money fast. With no prior experience with any job, I was stuck. Thankfully a friend told me about an exclusive club for billionaires where I could make lots of cash quick. So I joined and that same night I was offered more money than I could ever imagine by one of the members. I saw his profile and with no hesitation we agreed to meet the next day. He was one hunk of a man and was built like a beast, tall, muscular with dark green eyes. At the club, I was given my first contract, and I signed it carelessly. That was my biggest mistake. I signed up to satisfy his deepest desires in bed. Not fake marry him and have his baby! Keywords: Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after. billionaire, bad boy, office romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero. free book, free novels, romantic novels, and sexually romantic books.
Billionaire Romance: FREE Bad Boys Short Stories Part 2
Author: Michelle Love
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN: 1648086500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Enjoy this FREE bad boy book by Best-selling billionaire romance author Michelle Love.... Three sexy short reads to tempt your senses! Bad Boys Short Stories Part 2 is a collection of 3 romance stories with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! 1 - Opening Night: A Filthy Commitments Extra She was never supposed to get into my heart… It was supposed to be all business. Her body was mine to do with what I wanted. And how easily she gave that to me. The Dungeon of Decorum had finally opened and we put on our show. How was I to know jealousy and possessiveness would override my mind? But it did, and when it did, it changed everything … 2 - The Dom's Demons: A Vengeful Seduction Extra She says she loves me, but I know love doesn't exist … Isabel is trying to take my heart. Well, I'm not about to give it up to her or anyone. No matter how much I crave her gorgeous body and the way it succumbs to mine every time we're together. My blood runs rampant with darkness. If she doesn't stop trying to take my heart, Isabel will feel the fire of the demons that reside within me. No, Isabel will never win my love. I can't let her. I can't let her hurt herself by loving me. Lust compels me to have her luscious body, though—bend her to my will. Isabel should run, but she stays instead, tempting me with love and her ever-yielding body. Will the demons win? Will I hurt her beyond repair? Only God knows. 3 - Funhouse: A For Love & Torture Extra One sexy young thing, one funhouse, one hell of a Halloween night… All the young studs were after her, but I got her. Her voluptuous body was calling my name, so I had to do it. I had to take her off somewhere where no one knew either of us. Fulfilling a fantasy she invoked within me. Our bodies finally got all they'd craved, but what would it cost us? Our lives?
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN: 1648086500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Enjoy this FREE bad boy book by Best-selling billionaire romance author Michelle Love.... Three sexy short reads to tempt your senses! Bad Boys Short Stories Part 2 is a collection of 3 romance stories with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! 1 - Opening Night: A Filthy Commitments Extra She was never supposed to get into my heart… It was supposed to be all business. Her body was mine to do with what I wanted. And how easily she gave that to me. The Dungeon of Decorum had finally opened and we put on our show. How was I to know jealousy and possessiveness would override my mind? But it did, and when it did, it changed everything … 2 - The Dom's Demons: A Vengeful Seduction Extra She says she loves me, but I know love doesn't exist … Isabel is trying to take my heart. Well, I'm not about to give it up to her or anyone. No matter how much I crave her gorgeous body and the way it succumbs to mine every time we're together. My blood runs rampant with darkness. If she doesn't stop trying to take my heart, Isabel will feel the fire of the demons that reside within me. No, Isabel will never win my love. I can't let her. I can't let her hurt herself by loving me. Lust compels me to have her luscious body, though—bend her to my will. Isabel should run, but she stays instead, tempting me with love and her ever-yielding body. Will the demons win? Will I hurt her beyond repair? Only God knows. 3 - Funhouse: A For Love & Torture Extra One sexy young thing, one funhouse, one hell of a Halloween night… All the young studs were after her, but I got her. Her voluptuous body was calling my name, so I had to do it. I had to take her off somewhere where no one knew either of us. Fulfilling a fantasy she invoked within me. Our bodies finally got all they'd craved, but what would it cost us? Our lives?
Bad Billionaires Box Set: A Complete Contemporary Romance Collection
Author: Michelle Love
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN: 1648086659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1615
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy collection by Best-selling billionaire romance author Michelle Love.... Six steamy reads to tempt your senses! Bad Billionaires Box Set is a complete series collection of Full-length novels steaming with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! All novels have no cliff hanger with no cheating and a guaranteed happy ever after! Dirty Little Virgin - A Submissives' Secrets 1 School is in session, and the lessons are rock hard! She wants to write about the domme and my world. And I'm supposed to teach her, not take her. But her feisty manner begs to be tamed. Her innocence begs to be taken. I know my whip can bring her into submission. Her young body begs for my harsh and experienced touch. Doctor's Demands - A Submissives' Secrets 2 The Doctor's arrived... And his treatment is sizzling! She's a young college student, set on a scrupulous career as a school teacher. I'm a doctor with a checkered past.Binge drinking on weekends, sleeping with women I care nothing for, and seeking summers with women I rent, has been my life. Until I saw her face on the club's website. The Dungeon of Decorum may have found her, but I'd take her as my own. Fighting men who wanted to use her in ways I found distasteful, I finally won her. Savage SEAL's Virgin - A Submissives' Secrets 3 Dangerous missions, death-defying escapes, and mortal combats are child's play compared to taking a virgin ... Dark nights, strange forest creatures, ropes, cuffs, paddles, and a whip should've been more than enough to tame one little virgin. Blyss wasn't your typical virgin! I'd won her in a bidding war. She was pure as the driven snow. Every Dom wanted her. It was me who was supposed to rule her, but she stole my heart before I knew what was happening. Every part of her was virgin territory, yearning to be explored. She was primal, and I took her that way. Filthy Commitments - A Submissives' Secrets 4 It was never supposed to be real. Like they say, never say never... The last thing I wanted was to get serious, hence the need for a sub I could also use as my fake wife. From the moment I laid eyes on her, the attraction was instantaneous. I should've known that could only mean trouble. Her body succumbed to mine so easily. The rapture of taking her to heights she'd never known, exhilarating. Vengeful Seduction - A Submissives' Secrets 5 She stole what was rightfully mine, now I'm going to get it back... Kaye seems innocent, sweet, kind, nurturing. But she has to be hiding a dark side. A side of her that took my grandfather's affection had him leaving her all of his money. That money belongs to me. And only to me. She has no right to it. And I will do what I have to, to get it back. How easy it is for me to seduce her into believing I love her, care for her, want to marry her. For Love & Torture - A Submissives' Secrets 6 Darkness clings to my soul, so why does she allow herself to love me... I'm damaged beyond repair, but still she gives me longing looks and loving words. I've tortured her body and mind, why does she still claim to have love for me? I thought I would be okay without her. I thought I would be able to live my life working right next to the woman and never give in to her love.
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN: 1648086659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1615
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy collection by Best-selling billionaire romance author Michelle Love.... Six steamy reads to tempt your senses! Bad Billionaires Box Set is a complete series collection of Full-length novels steaming with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! All novels have no cliff hanger with no cheating and a guaranteed happy ever after! Dirty Little Virgin - A Submissives' Secrets 1 School is in session, and the lessons are rock hard! She wants to write about the domme and my world. And I'm supposed to teach her, not take her. But her feisty manner begs to be tamed. Her innocence begs to be taken. I know my whip can bring her into submission. Her young body begs for my harsh and experienced touch. Doctor's Demands - A Submissives' Secrets 2 The Doctor's arrived... And his treatment is sizzling! She's a young college student, set on a scrupulous career as a school teacher. I'm a doctor with a checkered past.Binge drinking on weekends, sleeping with women I care nothing for, and seeking summers with women I rent, has been my life. Until I saw her face on the club's website. The Dungeon of Decorum may have found her, but I'd take her as my own. Fighting men who wanted to use her in ways I found distasteful, I finally won her. Savage SEAL's Virgin - A Submissives' Secrets 3 Dangerous missions, death-defying escapes, and mortal combats are child's play compared to taking a virgin ... Dark nights, strange forest creatures, ropes, cuffs, paddles, and a whip should've been more than enough to tame one little virgin. Blyss wasn't your typical virgin! I'd won her in a bidding war. She was pure as the driven snow. Every Dom wanted her. It was me who was supposed to rule her, but she stole my heart before I knew what was happening. Every part of her was virgin territory, yearning to be explored. She was primal, and I took her that way. Filthy Commitments - A Submissives' Secrets 4 It was never supposed to be real. Like they say, never say never... The last thing I wanted was to get serious, hence the need for a sub I could also use as my fake wife. From the moment I laid eyes on her, the attraction was instantaneous. I should've known that could only mean trouble. Her body succumbed to mine so easily. The rapture of taking her to heights she'd never known, exhilarating. Vengeful Seduction - A Submissives' Secrets 5 She stole what was rightfully mine, now I'm going to get it back... Kaye seems innocent, sweet, kind, nurturing. But she has to be hiding a dark side. A side of her that took my grandfather's affection had him leaving her all of his money. That money belongs to me. And only to me. She has no right to it. And I will do what I have to, to get it back. How easy it is for me to seduce her into believing I love her, care for her, want to marry her. For Love & Torture - A Submissives' Secrets 6 Darkness clings to my soul, so why does she allow herself to love me... I'm damaged beyond repair, but still she gives me longing looks and loving words. I've tortured her body and mind, why does she still claim to have love for me? I thought I would be okay without her. I thought I would be able to live my life working right next to the woman and never give in to her love.
Doctor’s Demands
Author: Michelle Love
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy romance at a terrific discount. The Doctor's arrived…And his treatment is sizzling! She's a young college student, set on a scrupulous career as a school teacher. I'm a doctor with a checkered past. Binge drinking on weekends, sleeping with women I care nothing for, and seeking summers with women I rent, has been my life. Until I saw her face on the club's website. The Dungeon of Decorum may have found her, but I'd take her as my own. Fighting men who wanted to use her in ways I found distasteful, I finally won her. She was mine to do with as I wanted. And I wanted all of her! But she'd only get part of me. It had to be that way. She was my secret. From our first touch, a spark ignited, neither of us had ever felt before. Our heat was off the charts. I couldn't stop myself from taking her in ways I'd never planned on. And I hadn't planned for what she did. She broke every rule; some I hadn't even made yet. Could I face the world with what I'd done? Or would I run, leaving her behind me, safe as long as she wasn't with me? Love is temporary, at best. Happily, ever after endings are merely fantasies, or so we both thought… Keywords: Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after. billionaire, bad boy, office romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero. free book, free novels, romantic novels, and sexually romantic books.
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy romance at a terrific discount. The Doctor's arrived…And his treatment is sizzling! She's a young college student, set on a scrupulous career as a school teacher. I'm a doctor with a checkered past. Binge drinking on weekends, sleeping with women I care nothing for, and seeking summers with women I rent, has been my life. Until I saw her face on the club's website. The Dungeon of Decorum may have found her, but I'd take her as my own. Fighting men who wanted to use her in ways I found distasteful, I finally won her. She was mine to do with as I wanted. And I wanted all of her! But she'd only get part of me. It had to be that way. She was my secret. From our first touch, a spark ignited, neither of us had ever felt before. Our heat was off the charts. I couldn't stop myself from taking her in ways I'd never planned on. And I hadn't planned for what she did. She broke every rule; some I hadn't even made yet. Could I face the world with what I'd done? Or would I run, leaving her behind me, safe as long as she wasn't with me? Love is temporary, at best. Happily, ever after endings are merely fantasies, or so we both thought… Keywords: Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after. billionaire, bad boy, office romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero. free book, free novels, romantic novels, and sexually romantic books.
Heartbreaker
Author: Stacey Kennedy
Publisher: Stacey Kennedy
ISBN: 0995804109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Handcuffs aren't just part of their job in this sizzling new standalone romance by USA Today bestselling author, Stacey Kennedy. Veteran cop, Maddox Hunt, is all about the job. Sure, there are women—lots of women, truth be told—but there's no one special. Until a one-night stand from his past, rookie Joss O'Neil is assigned to his division. Suddenly, all he can think about is her. The scent of her. The taste of her. Fresh out of field training, Joss has thrown herself into her job, determined to kick-start her career. And while police work has its thrills, her gorgeous new boss is what really gets her pulse pounding. Too bad he's nothing but a distraction. Especially since he's as devastatingly handsome as she remembers, and his sexy smile arrests her heart. Now that Joss is back in Maddox's life, he has a plan: satisfy her fantasies and fulfill his every dark desire. Nothing is off limits. Her pleasure is the endgame . . . but even the best-laid plans have a way of falling apart. Despite his best attempts to keep his distance and have things remain only about the pleasure, Maddox soon finds himself breaking the only law he's set for himself. Don't fall in love.
Publisher: Stacey Kennedy
ISBN: 0995804109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Handcuffs aren't just part of their job in this sizzling new standalone romance by USA Today bestselling author, Stacey Kennedy. Veteran cop, Maddox Hunt, is all about the job. Sure, there are women—lots of women, truth be told—but there's no one special. Until a one-night stand from his past, rookie Joss O'Neil is assigned to his division. Suddenly, all he can think about is her. The scent of her. The taste of her. Fresh out of field training, Joss has thrown herself into her job, determined to kick-start her career. And while police work has its thrills, her gorgeous new boss is what really gets her pulse pounding. Too bad he's nothing but a distraction. Especially since he's as devastatingly handsome as she remembers, and his sexy smile arrests her heart. Now that Joss is back in Maddox's life, he has a plan: satisfy her fantasies and fulfill his every dark desire. Nothing is off limits. Her pleasure is the endgame . . . but even the best-laid plans have a way of falling apart. Despite his best attempts to keep his distance and have things remain only about the pleasure, Maddox soon finds himself breaking the only law he's set for himself. Don't fall in love.
Commitment
Author: Athanasios Galanis
Publisher: Athanasios
ISBN: 1465775773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Publisher: Athanasios
ISBN: 1465775773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Savage SEAL’s Virgin
Author: Michelle Love
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy romance at a terrific discount. She signed up to be my sub for the summer… But she didn’t expect to fake marry me and take care of my baby! I’m a billionaire Navy SEAL, and I love being a dom. I met Blyss at The Dungeon of Decorum Club. She was pure, and everybody wanted her, but I won her. Every part of her yearned to be explored. I was supposed to rule her, but she stole my heart. She was perfect, and I wanted her to be mine forever. And around the same time we met, I found out I had a little girl. Her mother had died a few months before. I wanted to take care of my child, but the only way that could happen was if I was married. Blyss was my only hope. I was told that my SEAL team needed me just as everything was coming together. War is hell, and it gets even harder when you have to leave the ones you love behind. Keywords: Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after. billionaire, bad boy, office romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero. free book, free novels, romantic novels, and sexually romantic books.
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Enjoy this bad boy romance at a terrific discount. She signed up to be my sub for the summer… But she didn’t expect to fake marry me and take care of my baby! I’m a billionaire Navy SEAL, and I love being a dom. I met Blyss at The Dungeon of Decorum Club. She was pure, and everybody wanted her, but I won her. Every part of her yearned to be explored. I was supposed to rule her, but she stole my heart. She was perfect, and I wanted her to be mine forever. And around the same time we met, I found out I had a little girl. Her mother had died a few months before. I wanted to take care of my child, but the only way that could happen was if I was married. Blyss was my only hope. I was told that my SEAL team needed me just as everything was coming together. War is hell, and it gets even harder when you have to leave the ones you love behind. Keywords: Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after. billionaire, bad boy, office romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero. free book, free novels, romantic novels, and sexually romantic books.
Sweet Filthy Boy
Author: Christina Lauren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476751811
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When three besties meet three hot guys in Vegas anything can—and does—happen. Book one of the New York Times bestselling Wild Seasons series from the author of the Beautiful series. One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him. But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation—and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out—Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume—her sweet, filthy fling—to France for the summer and just...play. When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the life she left because it was all wrong, or in the strange new one that seems worlds away.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476751811
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When three besties meet three hot guys in Vegas anything can—and does—happen. Book one of the New York Times bestselling Wild Seasons series from the author of the Beautiful series. One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him. But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation—and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out—Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume—her sweet, filthy fling—to France for the summer and just...play. When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the life she left because it was all wrong, or in the strange new one that seems worlds away.
Mr. Commitment
Author: Mike Gayle
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767910885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A bestseller in the UK, Mr. Commitment is an excursion into the world of a modern male that "delivers its punch lines directly to the heart" (Birmingham Evening Mail). Benjamin Duffy is a stand-up comic/temp who, like many men in their late twenties, is forced to face the eternal question: "To commit or not to commit?" After four years of biding her time, Benjamin's girlfriend has proposed, issuing an ultimatum that sets Benjamin's head spinning. He knows that Mel's the one for him, but should he swap his stellar record collection and fridge full of beer for dinner parties and trips to IKEA? Maybe if Benjamin could swap "till death do us part" with "renewable on a four-year basis" he'd be happy, but the choice--as far as Mel sees it--is all or nothing. Now or never. Mel or no Mel. After a lifetime as Mr. Irresponsible, does Benjamin have what it takes to become Mr. Commitment?
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767910885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A bestseller in the UK, Mr. Commitment is an excursion into the world of a modern male that "delivers its punch lines directly to the heart" (Birmingham Evening Mail). Benjamin Duffy is a stand-up comic/temp who, like many men in their late twenties, is forced to face the eternal question: "To commit or not to commit?" After four years of biding her time, Benjamin's girlfriend has proposed, issuing an ultimatum that sets Benjamin's head spinning. He knows that Mel's the one for him, but should he swap his stellar record collection and fridge full of beer for dinner parties and trips to IKEA? Maybe if Benjamin could swap "till death do us part" with "renewable on a four-year basis" he'd be happy, but the choice--as far as Mel sees it--is all or nothing. Now or never. Mel or no Mel. After a lifetime as Mr. Irresponsible, does Benjamin have what it takes to become Mr. Commitment?
Commitment and Sacrifice
Author: Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199336091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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 bringing together previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and restoring to publication the diary of a sixth that has long been out of print. The six diaries address the war on the Western front and the Mediterranean, as well as behind the lines on the home front. Together, these diarists form a diverse group: John French, a British sapper who dug precarious tunnels beneath the trenches of the Western Front; Henri Desagneaux, a French infantry officer embroiled in years of bloody combat; Philip T. Cate, an idealistic American volunteer ambulance driver who sought to save lives rather than take them; Willy Wolff, a German businessman caught in England upon the war's outbreak and interned there for the duration; James Douglas Hutchison, a New Zealand artilleryman fighting thousands of miles from home; and Felix Kaufmann, a German machine gunner, captured and held as a prisoner of war. Through the personal reflections of these young men, we are transported into many of the iconic episodes of the war, from the upheaval of mobilization through the great battles of Gallipoli, Verdun, and the Somme, as well as the less familiar "other ordeal" of internment and captivity. As members of the so-called Generation of 1914 (each was between nineteen and twenty-four years old), they shared an unwavering commitment to their countries' cause, and possessed a steadfast determination to persevere despite often appalling circumstances. Collectively, these diaries illuminate the sacrifices of war, whether willingly volunteered or stoically endured. That the diarists had the desire and the ingenuity to record their experiences, whether for their families, posterity, or simply their own personal satisfaction, gives readers the ability to eavesdrop on horrors long past. A century later, we are fortunate that they were both willing and able to set pencil to paper.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199336091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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 bringing together previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and restoring to publication the diary of a sixth that has long been out of print. The six diaries address the war on the Western front and the Mediterranean, as well as behind the lines on the home front. Together, these diarists form a diverse group: John French, a British sapper who dug precarious tunnels beneath the trenches of the Western Front; Henri Desagneaux, a French infantry officer embroiled in years of bloody combat; Philip T. Cate, an idealistic American volunteer ambulance driver who sought to save lives rather than take them; Willy Wolff, a German businessman caught in England upon the war's outbreak and interned there for the duration; James Douglas Hutchison, a New Zealand artilleryman fighting thousands of miles from home; and Felix Kaufmann, a German machine gunner, captured and held as a prisoner of war. Through the personal reflections of these young men, we are transported into many of the iconic episodes of the war, from the upheaval of mobilization through the great battles of Gallipoli, Verdun, and the Somme, as well as the less familiar "other ordeal" of internment and captivity. As members of the so-called Generation of 1914 (each was between nineteen and twenty-four years old), they shared an unwavering commitment to their countries' cause, and possessed a steadfast determination to persevere despite often appalling circumstances. Collectively, these diaries illuminate the sacrifices of war, whether willingly volunteered or stoically endured. That the diarists had the desire and the ingenuity to record their experiences, whether for their families, posterity, or simply their own personal satisfaction, gives readers the ability to eavesdrop on horrors long past. A century later, we are fortunate that they were both willing and able to set pencil to paper.