My Four Weeks in France
Автор:
Ring LardnerЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-12-03Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
32
Description
In 1917, Ring Lardner was sent on assignment as a war correspondent on the French front for a series of reports for Collier’s magazine. Appearing in serialized format in the magazine before its eventual publication as a book, My Four Weeks in France recalls Lardner’s experiences in his new wartime role.
Being a humorist and a satirist, it would have been inconsistent with his typical format to write harrowing stories about the horrors of combat. For this reason, this book instead consists primarily of harrowing stories of wartime government bureaucracy. Despite his efforts to get up to the front lines to write some legitimate war reportage, Lardner found himself...
