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• catalog abstract ""Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot solider - a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the United States and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted months of trench warfare in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace, the only region where French troops actually captured German territory, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature.". "Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire with three thousand German shells falling on the French troops every day to the monotony of long quiet hours spent in cold, wet trenches. He writes of the grinding and indecisive character of the fighting in the Vosges and of the almost ritualistic shelling and limited tactical offensives, such as the attack at Steinbach in December 1914. His later letters were written from the hospital, from officer training school, and from the front at the Somme. He relays news of all the major battlefields - Flanders, Verdun, Russia, Austria, Gallipoli, Italy, Serbia, and the Suez. He also comments on the new technology that changed the nature of war: the machine gun, new airplanes, U-boats, improved artillery, barbed wire, and poison gases." "Drama and a sympathetic human voice combine to make this account of a little-reported French front a valuable addition to the literature on World War I."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b12850978.
• catalog contributor b12850979.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot solider - a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the United States and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted months of trench warfare in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace, the only region where French troops actually captured German territory, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature.".".
• catalog description ""Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire with three thousand German shells falling on the French troops every day to the monotony of long quiet hours spent in cold, wet trenches. He writes of the grinding and indecisive character of the fighting in the Vosges and of the almost ritualistic shelling and limited tactical offensives, such as the attack at Steinbach in December 1914. His later letters were written from the hospital, from officer training school, and from the front at the Somme. He relays news of all the major battlefields - Flanders, Verdun, Russia, Austria, Gallipoli, Italy, Serbia, and the Suez.".
• catalog description "En route -- Besancon -- Vosges -- Wounded -- Resting -- St.-Maixent -- Alsace -- Munster/Colmar -- Somme -- A tribute by his sister -- A colleague's tribute -- The Pellissier memorial -- Time line of events in letters.".
• catalog description "He also comments on the new technology that changed the nature of war: the machine gun, new airplanes, U-boats, improved artillery, barbed wire, and poison gases." "Drama and a sympathetic human voice combine to make this account of a little-reported French front a valuable addition to the literature on World War I."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog extent "xxxi, 221 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Good idea of hell.".
• catalog identifier "1585442100 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Good idea of hell.".
• catalog isPartOf "Texas A & M University military history series ; 83".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
• catalog relation "Good idea of hell.".
• catalog spatial "Western Front".
• catalog subject "940.4/144/092 B 21".
• catalog subject "D640.P384 A3 2003".
• catalog subject "France. Armée Non-commissioned officers Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Pellissier, Robert E. (Robert Edouard), 1882-1916 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front Personal narratives.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, French.".
• catalog tableOfContents "En route -- Besancon -- Vosges -- Wounded -- Resting -- St.-Maixent -- Alsace -- Munster/Colmar -- Somme -- A tribute by his sister -- A colleague's tribute -- The Pellissier memorial -- Time line of events in letters.".
• catalog title "A good idea of hell : letters from a chasseur à pied / Joshua Brown, editor ; foreword by Leonard V. Smith.".
• catalog type "text".