Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire and the Eiffel Tower hummed

and the Eiffel Tower hummed at all hours relaying messages to and from the front

by Walter Dean Myers & Bill Miles

from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to theoretical physics

When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914

American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire and the Eiffel Tower hummedDescription by Louis Barthas Paperback The harrowing first person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty five year old barrel maker from a small wine growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near ceaseless combat, wherever the French army