The idea and wish to write this book was triggered by the centennial commemoration of World War I end, on November 11, 2018.In the family archives I had come across a set of documents, mainly notebooks, workbooks, textbooks belonging to Uncle Henri when he was a cadet at the preparatory Military academy, as well letters he had written from the front between 1915 and 1916, year of his death at the Battle of Verdun.After reading these deeply moving posthumous testimonies of t...

The idea and wish to write this book was triggered by the centennial commemoration of World War I end, on November 11, 2018.In the family archives I had come across a set of documents, mainly notebooks, workbooks, textbooks belonging to Uncle Henri when he was a cadet at the preparatory Military academy, as well letters he had written from the front between 1915 and 1916, year of his death at the Battle of Verdun.After reading these deeply moving posthumous testimonies of t...