This book paper examines five bereavement GG. A drop of water in an ocean. -R. Leighton (infantry) English death at 19, early poet, an intellectual value promised in Oxford, fiancé Vera Britain- 20 years- poet and future memory of the GG in England. Vera loses all his friends in the war! Wealthy family. Mourning of a promised through writing. -E. Clermont (infantry) French, died at 35 years old, wealthy family, already recognized writer. Single, mourning for his sister through writing. -M.Gallé (Infantry) French, died at age 21, single. Wealthy family. Here is the notion of "disappeared" causing an impossible mourning. Once found the body, her parents do their mourning by the Christian faith and by memories: monument, museum, etc. - T.Maupas (infantry), French, 41, shot - "shot Souain" teacher, his teacher wife also, she will grieve in "fighter" for 20 years for the rehabilitation of her husband. Only cases of non-wealthy family! -P.Mendes (Artillery), French 19 years old, single, wealthy family, give him a decent burial during the war and writing will serve as the basis for his mother mourning process. Last sentence of the summary back cover "[the five mourning] ... They refer to yellowed portraits preserved in our families, in memory of women dressed in black, with a memory of the modestly buried suffering: our own. ". This sentence is unreasonable because 90% of infantry soldiers are rural people: farmers, artisans, laborers ... The loss of a son or a husband for these mothers, fathers and women signed a terrible emotional loss but as an almost total loss of income. Many farms just died for lack of arms, villages disappeared, entire families fell into poverty. If my great-grandfather was not "returned" it would have been the case in my family. This study required documents, writings, and it is the affluent backgrounds who left such traces at the time, so the author had no choice. But without detracting from the psychological drama of these families; destitution and outright hunger, they were taught in. That the author could devote a few lines. The terrible tragedy of Blanche Maupas - because she knew denigration, insults and almost hunger and folie- deserves a more comprehensive study and I advise you: "Blanche Maupas: The widow of all shot" "Blanche Maupas." and for poetry on the GG in England; "And each slow dusk ... War Poems and Letters (1916-1918), French-English bilingual edition" "Poets War: Anthology Of Time"