Diary of the 1914-1918 War
Published on 1. October 2015
284 pages
978-1-925309-07-2 (ISBN)
Description
Written as a young man in Sedan, in the eastern France, which was occupied by the German''s in the First Wold War, Congar makes daily entries about the War. Written from the eyes of a child, the diary was found in his room in Paris after his death and published a few years later. The diary comes with the drawings, maps, and poetry he made as part of this daily entries.
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Content
- Intro
- Translators' Notes
- Introductory Comments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Editorial Note to the French Edition
- Exercise Books
- First Exercise Book 27th July 1914 - 21st January 1915
- Second Exercise Book 22nd January 1915 - 24th September 1915
- Third Exercise Book 25th September 1915 - 25th December 1916
- Fourth Exercise Book 1st January 1917 - 14th February 1918
- Fifth Exercise Book 15th February 1918 - 15th November 1918
- Annexes
- Rough draft of part of Yves Congar's Diary
- Letter from Yves to his father
- Note re the invasions and the war
- A Sedanese childhood
- Yves Congar, a wartime child
