World War One otherwise known as "The Great War" was a unprecedented time. New technology made the massacre of people a wide spread phenomena and many did not know how to cope. With all the new kinds of warfare, War can make the most sophisticated man into an animal. There is no peace in the battlefield, No where to hide and when all your friends are dealing with the same traumas you have endured,there seems to be no one to talk to. Sometimes writing is the only relief a battered soldier or other war victims can get. Memoirs: A series of accounts written down by a person who has witnessed or participated in a event. Soldiers, nurses, schoolgirls, etc. wrote down their personal feeling toward the war and the events that they have witnessed. Along with writing their own feeling, many people add their wills and testaments in their journals; in the hope that if they die their journals can be given to their love ones. Reading these novels and journals have given people from the modern ages a inside look at the horrors of war.
A few Famous writers of The Great War
Gabrielle West (England)-A young woman from a well off family. Gabrielle wanted to do her part to help her country. She worked as a guard in an ammunition factory. She wrote a war diary called: World War I diary of Miss G. West. Paul and Marie Pieraud (France) - Paul and Marie were a young and happily married couple. Once the Great War broke out, Paul was drafted to fight for his country. Their only way of keeping connections with each other were through series of love notes and letters sent from the trenches and battlefields to where Marie was. All their notes were collected an made into: Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War, Marina Yurlova (Russia) - Born into a family of Russia's best soldiers. Marina ran away into the war to find her father, only to become a child soldier. She wrote down her experiences from the war like being sent to bomb bridges and being sent to an asylum. Elfiede Alice Kuhr (Germany)- Elfriede was just a young girl when the Great War broke out. Like most of Germany she was told to do whatever it took to help the war from home. Elfiede helped collect metals, worked with her grandmother as a nurse, and worked in a nursery feeding children during the war period. At school, her class was all suppose to write their own "War Diaries" in order to keep their memories of the Great War alive. The english verion of her published journal is :There we'll meet again, a young German girl's diary of the first world war