Vie des martyrs

Collection "Les Grands Ecrivains".

Summary: "August 1914, the war begins. For four years, it will take a heavy toll: 1,500,000 dead and a huge number of maimed. "There isn't a French town where open wounds on the battlefield don't bleed to death. There is not a French city that has not assumed the duty to relieve some of this suffering," wrote Georges Duhamel. But is it enough to bandage, to heal, to extinguish the debt owed to these men? Do those who see the wounded lined in white beds, playing cards and getting on with their lives, know how much pain their immaculate bandages hide or how much self-sacrifice their smiles and jokes conceal? Georges Duhamel, a military surgeon who volunteered from the very first days, witnessed the long ordeal that everyone endured, and of which only a few triumphed, to remain forever scarred by it. Life of the Martyrs is an unforgettable testimony on the greatness of these simple men who fought' during the Great War and whom Georges Duhamel wanted to revive in all memories".

"Final Edition" printed on vellum from Papeteries du Marais, specially watermarked "à la plume" for the Grands Écrivains collection.