Title : I was a doctor in the trenches: August 2, 1914 - July 14, 1919 - Maufrais Louis, Martine Veillet - Book

Summary :

August 1914. Louis Maufrais, a medical student, is thinking of presenting his internship when war breaks out. The young man joins the front, discovers the trenches. He will stay there for four years. Four years during which he brushes with death, his feet in the mud and his hands in blood, buried day and night in the depths of aid stations shaken by the blast of shells. When he has a moment of rest, he takes notes, photographs, to recount the suffering, that of his comrades, his own, but also friendship, the burlesque, the absurd...

"This is a mind-blowing text. The work of a doctor who fought in the trenches throughout the Great War, it is unpublished to this day, published for the first time on this 90th anniversary of the Armistice.
"Maufrais was everywhere: first in Argonne and Champagne in 1915, at Verdun and on the Somme in 1916, again at Verdun in 1917, finally as a surgeon in an ambulance from April 1918 to January 1919. Not only was he on all the fronts of the war, in France, but in action four years out of four. In this, his testimony is unique. It is also unique in that his activity as an auxiliary doctor led him to take notes for the follow-up of his wounded.
"It was his notebooks and photographs, saved, that allowed him, sixty years later, to dictate fragments of unparalleled precision: information and memories intact, as if frozen."
Marc Ferro

• EAN: 9782221109182
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