Paroles de poilus #2

The cover of this second volume in Soleil's Paroles de Poilus series sets a quietly moving tone: a towering French poilu in full Great War kit — steel helmet, heavy coat, rifle slung at his back, satchel at his side — reads a letter while three small children gaze up at him from behind a barbed-wire fence, smoke-filled battlefields looming in the distance behind him. The subtitle Mon Papa en Guerre ("My Father at War") gives the image its emotional weight, bridging the immense scale of 1914–1918 combat with the intimate perspective of children waiting at home. Published in 2012, this volume continues the series' heartfelt commitment to honoring the voices and human stories of the soldiers who lived through the First World War.