Desagneaux was mobilized as a Reserve Lieutenant in the Railway Transport Section. But he left that post for a command in the trenches, rising to Captain in 1916, and later as Major. His diary covers the whole of the war, he was continuously at the front except for hospitalisation when wounded at Verdun, and a spell restoring order after the 1917 mutinies.
The book was translated by Godfrey J. Adams.
We have categorised it in "French Army" as opposed to "Personal Accounts" as it sheds light on the workings of the French Army.