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The Conscript
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
The Conscript written by Alexandre Dumas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with Wars of Liberation, 1813-1814 categories.
A Conscript For Empire
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Author : Philippe
language : en
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Release Date : 2008-04-01
A Conscript For Empire written by Philippe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A young soldier thrown to the mercies of total war This is remarkable story of a young Rhinelander caught up in the whirlwind of war that raged in Europe in the early 19th century. As one of the smaller Germanic states his homeland was always in an ambiguous position between the great powers. His brother was a proud Cuirassier in Napoleon's Army and Philippe himself became-in his turn-a conscript in the French infantry sent to Spain to fight the British and Spaniards. Captured, he suffered privations and dangers until incarcerated on the prison island of Cabrera where he was offered release if he would change his allegiances by joining the Kings German Legion. The end of war found him in service of a military man with whom he travelled to the East in a British East Indiaman which struck a reef, throwing him into a hair-raising experience of shipwreck and the battle for survival.
The Conscript
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
language : en
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Release Date : 1874
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Conscription In The Napoleonic Era
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Author : Donald Stoker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-10-09
Conscription In The Napoleonic Era written by Donald Stoker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-09 with History categories.
This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars. The levée-en-masse of the French Revolution has often been cited as a ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’, but was it truly a ‘revolutionary’ break with past European practices of raising armies, or an intensification of the scope and scale of practices already inherent in the European military system? This international collection of scholars demonstrate that European conscription has far deeper roots than has been previously acknowledged, and that its intensification during the Napoleonic era was more an ‘evolutionary’ than ‘revolutionary’ change. This book will be of much interest to students of Military History, Strategic Studies, Strategic History and European History.
The Conscript A Tale Of The French War Of 1813
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Author : Emile Erckmann
language : en
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Release Date : 1871
The Conscript A Tale Of The French War Of 1813 written by Emile Erckmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.
The Conscript
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-02
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Excerpt from The Conscript: A Tale of War On the verge of the department of Aisne, to the east of the little city of Villers Cotterets, lost in the edge of that magnificent forest which covers twenty square leagues, shaded by the most magnificent beeches and most robust oaks of all France, is the little village of Haramont, a perfect nest amid the moss and leaves, the principal street of which ascends by gentle declivity to the chateau des Fosses, in which the first years of my childhood were passed. As we advance in life, and in reality separate ourselves from the cradle and draw near to the tomb, invisible threads which attach man to the place of his birth become stronger and more tenacious. The reason is, that the heart, mind and intelligence, the whole being in fact, reacts on the spectre we call Time, which ever forces us forward with a stronger hand and more sensible impulse, as if our life were an inclined plane, and as if obedient to the laws of gravity it passed more rapidly towards the end, than at the beginning. - Then man returns in sorrow, and cries and clings to all that he weeps with; and as every thing he sees has the same proclivity, borne by the same torrent, he feels that resistance is vain and desperate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Conscripts And Deserters
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Author : Alan Forrest
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1989-11-23
Conscripts And Deserters written by Alan Forrest and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-11-23 with History categories.
Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.
Soldiers Of Empire
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Author : Tarak Barkawi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-08
Soldiers Of Empire written by Tarak Barkawi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-08 with History categories.
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
Drafting The Russian Nation
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Author : Joshua A. Sanborn
language : en
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Release Date : 2003
Drafting The Russian Nation written by Joshua A. Sanborn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Draft categories.
How did Russia develop a modern national identity, and what role did the military play? Sanborn examines tsarist and Soviet armies of the early twentieth century to show how military conscription helped to bind citizens and soldiers into a modern political community. The experience of total war, he shows, provided the means by which this multiethnic and multiclass community was constructed and tested. Drafting the Russian Nation is the first archivally based study of the relationship between military conscription and nation-building in a European country. Stressing the importance of violence to national political consciousness, Sanborn shows how national identity was formed and maintained through the organized practice of violence. The cultural dimensions of the "military body" are explored as well, especially in relation to the nationalization of masculinity. The process of nation-building set in motion by military reformers culminated in World War I, when ethnically diverse conscripts fought together in total war to preserve their national territory. In the ensuing Civil War, the army's effort was directed mainly toward killing the political opposition within the "nation." While these complex conflicts enabled the Bolsheviks to rise to power, the massive violence of war even more fundamentally constituted national political life. Not all minorities were easily assimilated. The attempt to conscript natives of Central Asia for military service in 1916 proved disastrous, for example. Jews, also identified as non-nationals, were conscripted but suffered intense discrimination within the armed forces because they were deemed to be inherently unreliable and potentially disloyal. Drafting the Russian Nation is rich with insights into the relation of war to national life. Students of war and society in the twentieth century will find much of interest in this provocative study.
Asian Labor In The Wartime Japanese Empire
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Author : Paul H. Kratoska
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Asian Labor In The Wartime Japanese Empire written by Paul H. Kratoska and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Business & Economics categories.
During the Pacific War the Japanese government used a wide range of methods to recruit workers for construction projects throughout the occupied territories. Mistreatment of workers was a major grievance, both in widely publicized cases such as the use of prisoners of war and forced Asian labor to construct the Thailand-Burma "Death" Railway, and in a very large number of smaller projects. In this book an international group of specialists on the Occupation period examine the labor needs and the recruitment and use of workers (whether forced, military, or otherwise) throughout the Japanese empire. This is the first study to look at Japanese labor policies comparatively across all the occupied territories of Asia during the war years. It also provides a graphic context for examining Japanese colonialism and relations between the Japanese and the people living in the various occupied territories.