Vie des martyrs

Collection "The Great Writers".

Summary: "August 1914, the war begins. For four years, it will exact a heavy toll: 1,500,000 dead and an enormous number of maimed. 'There is not a single French town to which the wounds opened on the battlefield do not bleed. Not a single French town that has not taken on the duty of alleviating a part of this suffering,' writes Georges Duhamel. But is it enough to dress wounds, to heal, to extinguish the debt incurred towards these men? Do those who see the wounded lying in white beds, playing cards and resuming their lives, know all the pain hidden by their immaculate bandages or the self-sacrifice behind their smiles and jokes? A volunteer from the very first days, a military surgeon, Georges Duhamel witnesses the long torment that all endure and that only a few triumph over, remaining forever marked by it. Vie des martyrs is an unforgettable testimony to the greatness of these simple men who fought in the Great War and whom Georges Duhamel wished to bring back to life in everyone's memory."

"Definitive edition" printed on vellum paper from Papeteries du Marais, specially watermarked "with a quill" for The Great Writers collection.