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Book Title: Embattled Self : French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.8in
Author: Leonard V. Smith
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Europe / France, Military / World War I
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
