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A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.
Author : Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 110701235X
A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.
Author : Anthony Clayton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1474603335
Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military, and his book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the First World War. He reveals why and how the French army fought as it did. He profiles its senior commanders - Joffre, Petain, Nivelle and Foch - and analyses its major campaigns both on the Western Front and in the Near East and Africa. PATHS OF GLORY also considers in detail the officers, how they kept their trenches and how men from very different areas of France fought and died together. He scrutinises the make-up and performance of France's large colonial armies, and investigates the mutinies of 1917. Ultimately, he reveals how the traumatic French experience of the 1914-18 war indelibly shaped a nation.
Author : Laurent Mirouze
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Military uniforms
ISBN : 9783902526090
The first volume represents a snapshot of the army on 2 August 1914, before all the developments forced on it by the war. The second volume deal with the great changes precipitated by the flying corps and the special artillery with its first tanks.
Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526701812
The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution it made to the eventual French victory, is often forgotten. So Ian Sumner's photographic history, which features almost 200 images, most of which have not been published before, is a fascinating and timely introduction to the subject. The fighter pilots, who usually dominate perceptions of the war in the air, play a leading role in the story, in particular the French aces, the small group of outstanding airmen whose exploits captured the publics imagination. Their fame, though, tends to distract attention from the ordinary unremembered airmen who formed the body of the air force throughout the war years. Ian Sumner tells their story too, as well as describing in a sequence of memorable photographs the less well-known branches of the service the bomber and reconnaissance pilots and the variety of primitive warplanes they flew.
Author : Richard S. Fogarty
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801888247
Reservoirs of men -- Race and the deployment of troupes indigènes -- Hierarchies of rank, hierarchies of race -- Race and language in the army -- Religion and the "problem" of Islam in the French army -- Race, sex, and imperial anxieties -- Between subjects and citizens
Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 3110435993
Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.
Author : Karl Deuringer
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0750951796
On 7 August 1914 a French corps attacked towards Mulhouse in Alsace and was immediately thrown back by the Germans. On 14 August, two weeks before Tannenberg and three weeks before the Battle of the Marne, the French 1st and 2nd Armies attacked into Lorraine, and on 20 August the German 6th and 7th Armies counterattacked. After forty-three years of peace, this was the first test of strength between France and Germany. In 1929, Karl Deuringer wrote the official history of the battle for the Bavarian Army, an immensely detailed work of 890 pages, chronicling the battle to 15 September. Here, First World War expert and former army officer Terence Zuber has translated and edited this study to a more accessible length, while retaining over thirty highly detailed maps, to bring us the first account in English of the first major battle of the Great War.
Author : Louis Barthas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 030020695X
“An exceptionally vivid memoir of a French soldier’s experience of the First World War.”—Max Hastings, New York Times bestselling author Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. First published in France in 1978, this excellent new translation brings Barthas’ wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a “poilu,” or “hairy one,” as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas’ return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War. “This is clearly one of the most readable and indispensable accounts of the death of the glory of war.”—The Daily Beast (“Hot Reads”)
Author : Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release :
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Author : Jean Jacques Becker
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
A well-known authority in the field provides a wide-ranging exploration of the repercussions of the First World War upon the French people.