The book will gain by being read and re-read after the war, when the coming of peace will have restored to us that independence of mind which is necessary for the adequate appreciation of works of art.
Paul Bourget in Echo de Paris, April 28, 1916:—
I consider the Journal d’un simple soldat, one of the best examples of the literature of war impressions which has characterized the conflict now in progress.… The book is as impassioned as a novel and as living as history.
THE DIARY OF A
FRENCH PRIVATE
WAR—IMPRISONMENT
1914-1915
BY
GASTON RIOU
Translated from the French
by
EDEN AND CEDAR PAUL
