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The Broken Faces

The Broken Faces
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The Broken Faces
Reference : SO16-11-ML
Full title : The Broken Faces and Wounded in the Great War
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The trauma associated with the Great War was a source of both
physical and psychological suffering for combatants. Its various forms and their severity required the deployment of many technological and scientific resources on the battlefield. Confronted with a multitude of wounded soldiers and hitherto unknown pathologies, doctors and surgeons needed to improvise and experiment.

For the luckiest, normal life could be resumed; however, for others, severe sequelae transformed the return to civilian life into another ordeal. Their omnipresent figures and faces in the post-war landscape reminded the entire society of their great sacrifice, ‘So, that man who walks by with an empty sleeve, did he fight in the war too […]? And that young man with two wooden legs, he wasn’t always like that? Before, he walked on two bending legs, just like you and I? And that one, driven by a woman and who needs to lift his head up to see the light of day, has he seen God’s sun?’

(Translated from La Sainte Face, Élie Faure)
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Authors : Christophe Thomas
Language : ENGLISH
Publisher : Orep Editions
Collection : 1914-1918
Publication date : 2024
Genre : Historical
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Weight : 140 g
Dimensions (Width / Height / Thickness) : 17 x 24 x 0,3 cm
Number of pages : 32
Softcover
EAN : 9782815108232
ISBN : 978-2-8151-0823-2
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