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Minds at War - Fighting France

Minds at War - Fighting France

FromWorld War One


Minds at War - Fighting France

FromWorld War One

ratings:
Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Jul 17, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet introduces novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France. Wharton, best known for The Age Of Innocence and The House of Mirth, was granted unique access to the Western front and wrote one of the most evocative and undeservedly neglected accounts of life in France in World War One. In its pages, penned early in the war, are Wharton's painterly descriptions of the country's overnight transformation from peace to war, her deep love for France and its people, and her accounts of the destruction wrought upon the villages and towns in the path of the German invader.
Released:
Jul 17, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (75)

The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.