THIS simple, every-day record of the experiences through which one French family has lived since August, 1914, may seem at first sight a charming, but not very important contribution to the literature of the war. But if we accept Henry Cabot Lodge's dictum that "one fact is gossip, and that two related facts are history," we shall realize in closing the book how much history we have absorbed in a Jourdainesque kind of ignorance.
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THIS simple, every-day record of the experiences through which one French family has lived since August, 1914, may seem at first sight a charming, but not very important contribution to the literature of the war. But if we accept Henry Cabot Lodge's dictum that "one fact is gossip, and that two related facts are history," we shall realize in closing the book how much history we have absorbed in a Jourdainesque kind of ignorance.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 373pp. Full dark blue cloth, gilt spine letters; covers slightly edge worn and rubbed, else very good. The diary of an English woman living in France, describing the French home front life during the early months of WWI: August 1, 1914--February 28, 1916.
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Good. 20 cm, 373, frontis illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. Preface by Helen Choate Prince. One family's simple, everyday record of their experiences in France from 1914 to 1918.
