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That actually amuses me.
Far from being the same kind of things, but it reminds me of a story(from a true letter written by a WW1 french veteran when back on the front) about a drunk officer(iirc) during the night deciding to try to saddle his horse in the dark of the night but accidently starting to fit the saddle on a cow instead.
Far from being the same kind of things, but it reminds me of a story(from a true letter written by a WW1 french veteran when back on the front) about a drunk officer(iirc) during the night deciding to try to saddle his horse in the dark of the night but accidently starting to fit the saddle on a cow instead.
Well, it was less about "heroism" than just "tales from the front". Generally, the rest of the "collection" of such letters that this tale was from tends to be much somber.
It's from a french work, called "Paroles de Poilus" which basically took about a few dozens of letters written by soldiers during the war, often from the front whenever rest ever allowed it, which were then grouped together and for which a different french comic book artist would do a comic/drawn strip(as they are called there, BD/"Bande-Déssinée") adaptation for each of the letters.
This is a bit of a work that marked me, as each letters really were ones written back in WW1, and for each "comic" there is the full accompanied letter(where what typos there might be was kept for accuracy, without any adaptation) complete with a short bio of the writer(what he would do before the war... where he served during it. What happened to him afterward... if he survived it that is).
Plus as a different artist volunteered for each letter, I feel it's a great display of the variety of styles that can be found in Europe.
Heh, sorry for the drawn-out babbling :)
It's from a french work, called "Paroles de Poilus" which basically took about a few dozens of letters written by soldiers during the war, often from the front whenever rest ever allowed it, which were then grouped together and for which a different french comic book artist would do a comic/drawn strip(as they are called there, BD/"Bande-Déssinée") adaptation for each of the letters.
This is a bit of a work that marked me, as each letters really were ones written back in WW1, and for each "comic" there is the full accompanied letter(where what typos there might be was kept for accuracy, without any adaptation) complete with a short bio of the writer(what he would do before the war... where he served during it. What happened to him afterward... if he survived it that is).
Plus as a different artist volunteered for each letter, I feel it's a great display of the variety of styles that can be found in Europe.
Heh, sorry for the drawn-out babbling :)
Hardly any need to be sorry - that sounds absolutely fascinating! It's at times like these that I really, really wish I spoke French ^^ There is nothing that gives one a more intimate brush with the past than reading letters from the time. If it's ever translated, I'd love to pick up a copy!
My family was very fortunate that my aunt kept all of her father's correspondence from the Great War. He was a member of an army band, and wrote not only of life in the trenches but also of band life. He told of cramming into the back of a lorry with scores of men and instruments, and of rehearsing in the shells of bombed-out barns - all sorts of interesting anecdotes! I'm about halfway done transcribing them onto the computer, in hopes that perhaps around the centennial some school might be interested in publishing the letters as a scholarly resource.
My family was very fortunate that my aunt kept all of her father's correspondence from the Great War. He was a member of an army band, and wrote not only of life in the trenches but also of band life. He told of cramming into the back of a lorry with scores of men and instruments, and of rehearsing in the shells of bombed-out barns - all sorts of interesting anecdotes! I'm about halfway done transcribing them onto the computer, in hopes that perhaps around the centennial some school might be interested in publishing the letters as a scholarly resource.
Heh, I actually have two tomes in the series "Paroles de". (Respectively, Paroles de Poilus, about the "Poilus" the french WW1 veterans, and "Paroles de Verdun" about the specific period of that battle).
It might sound silly, but due to the amount of friends I have talked to about the book, trying my own "fanslation" of it is something that has sometimes passed through my head once in a while.
It might sound silly, but due to the amount of friends I have talked to about the book, trying my own "fanslation" of it is something that has sometimes passed through my head once in a while.
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