Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire American journalists hurried across the

American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars

with a highly unusual plot

Many hoped to keep to the moral high ground

On the night of March 18

including the immensely popular former president Theodore Roosevelt

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire American journalists hurried across theDescription by Louis Barthas Paperback The harrowing first person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty five year old barrel maker from a small wine growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near ceaseless combat, wherever the French army