Dirge for the dead of Verdun
By: by Henry Montherland ; translated and introduction by Edd Wheeler
Contributors: Wheeler, Edd, translator, writer of added commentary
Publisher: Needle Press, an imprint of IncGlobal
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Roswell, Georgia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780988503762
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Verdun, Battle of, Verdun, France, 1916; Personal narratives; World War, 1914-1918; Bataille de Verdun, Verdun, France, 1916; Récits personnels; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
Work titles: Chant funèbre pour les morts de Verdun
Description: "This first-ever English translation of Montherlant's WWI memoir has been called "a poetic introduction." It reveals the fury and madness of the epic struggle at Verdun. Wheeler writes that "the greatest cause on the Western Front was that for regret - and loss of promise in lives of almost four million people. Forget the loss to art and science, to medicine and the wine trade. The blotting out of so many futures promising love, reflection, and achievement is tragic enough" -- Amazon.
Notes: Translation of Henry de Montherlant, Chant Funèbre pour les Morts de Verdun, 6th ed. (Paris : Bernard Grasset, 1925).

Includes bibliographical references.

Nominated for the 2015 PEN Translation Prize