St. Michael and the Dragon | Memoirs of a Paratrooper
Author - Pierre Leulliette
Year published - 1964
Published by - Houghton Mifflin
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Biographies, Autobiographies and Diaries
Summary
The author describes what is basically a soldier’s journal about his experiences of the Franco-Algerian war. He served as a paratrooper in the first three years of the war from 1954 through late 1957. His covers his enlistment as a volunteer paratrooper to the startling reality of what war as such is like, what happens to human beings when they play at war and find that it strips them of not only of comfort, pleasure, and decency, but of feeling and of humanity itself.
Notes - Wear on dust jacket
Author - Pierre Leulliette
Year published - 1964
Published by - Houghton Mifflin
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Biographies, Autobiographies and Diaries
Summary
The author describes what is basically a soldier’s journal about his experiences of the Franco-Algerian war. He served as a paratrooper in the first three years of the war from 1954 through late 1957. His covers his enlistment as a volunteer paratrooper to the startling reality of what war as such is like, what happens to human beings when they play at war and find that it strips them of not only of comfort, pleasure, and decency, but of feeling and of humanity itself.
Notes - Wear on dust jacket
Author - Pierre Leulliette
Year published - 1964
Published by - Houghton Mifflin
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Biographies, Autobiographies and Diaries
Summary
The author describes what is basically a soldier’s journal about his experiences of the Franco-Algerian war. He served as a paratrooper in the first three years of the war from 1954 through late 1957. His covers his enlistment as a volunteer paratrooper to the startling reality of what war as such is like, what happens to human beings when they play at war and find that it strips them of not only of comfort, pleasure, and decency, but of feeling and of humanity itself.
Notes - Wear on dust jacket
