Soldier Of France
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A Soldier Of France To His Mother Letters From The Trenches On The Western Front
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Author : Eugène-Emmanuel Lemercier
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
A Soldier Of France To His Mother Letters From The Trenches On The Western Front written by Eugène-Emmanuel Lemercier and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
The story of a renowned French painter who volunteered for the Army during the First World War paints a vivid picture of the horror at the front in his letters home written before his death in 1915. “A Bestseller, remarkable for the horrors of the western front conveyed in a spirit of self-sacrifice and filial love.”- A Companion to World War One ed. John Horne, Blackwell Publishing, 2012 “THE following letters were written by a young French painter who was at the front until the beginning of April, 1915, when he “disappeared” in one of the combats in the Argonne region of France. “Should he be spoken of in the present or in the past?” asks M. André Chevrillon , a friend of the soldier’s family, in the preface to the French edition of this book. “Since the day when his mother and grandmother received from him his last communication, a post card bespattered with mud which announced the attack in which he fell, what a tragic silence for these two women who, during eight months, had lived only with these letters, which came almost daily. In his studio, among the pictures in which this young man had fixed his dreams and his visions of an artist, I have seen, piously arranged on a table, all the little square white sheets of this correspondence. What a speechless presence! I did not know then what a soul was there transcribed in these messages to the family hearth - a fully formed soul, which, if it had lived, I feel sure would have spread its fame and its influence far beyond this little home circle and radiated a-wide among the hearts of men.””
Soldier Of France
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Author : F. J. Hebbert
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1989
Soldier Of France written by F. J. Hebbert and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of the greatest of France's pre-Revolutionary military engineers and builders, this book attempts to evoke both the man and the significance of his work. It also surveys the broad scope of his formidable intellect in connection with social, political and demographic matters. Stressing his basic honesty, humanity and courage this book portrays Vauban as a significant and influential servitor of the Sun King, Louis XIV, both within and beyond his professional obligations as royal engineer.
The Soldiers Of The French Revolution
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Author : Alan I. Forrest
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1990
The Soldiers Of The French Revolution written by Alan I. Forrest and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
In this work Alan Forrest brings together some of the recent research on the Revolutionary army that has been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic by younger historians, many of whom look to the influential work of Braudel for a model. Forrest places the armies of the Revolution in a broader social and political context by presenting the effects of war and militarization on French society and government in the Revolutionary period. Revolutionary idealists thought of the French soldier as a willing volunteer sacrificing himself for the principles of the Revolution; Forrest examines the convergence of these ideals with the ordinary, and often dreadful, experience of protracted warfare that the soldier endured.
Manual For Soldiers In France In Town And Field Service
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Author : G. Ruffier
language : fr
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2018-08-08
Manual For Soldiers In France In Town And Field Service written by G. Ruffier and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-08 with History categories.
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Fighting For Napoleon
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Author : Bernard Wilkin
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Release Date : 2015-11-30
Fighting For Napoleon written by Bernard Wilkin and has been published by Grub Street Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-30 with History categories.
True, first-hand accounts of combat and soldiering from the men who fought for Napoleon Bonparte and the First French Empire: “Fascinating stuff” (Stuart Asquith, author of Military Modelling). The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often presented from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers’ memoirs. Fighting for Napoleon:French Soldiers’ Letters, 1799–1815, based on more than sixteen hundred letters written by French soldiers of the Napoleonic armies, shares the perspectives and experiences of the lowest, ordinary ranks of the army who fought on the frontlines. Authors Bernard Wilkin and René Wilkin provide an informative read of common soldiers’ lives for military and cultural historians as well as a fascinating counterpoint to the memoirs of Cpt. Jean-Roch Coignet, Col. Marcellin de Marbot, or Sgt. Adrien Bourgogne. “A superb guide to the experience and motivation of military service that is based on a wide trawl of relevant letters . . . A first-rate work that is of much wider significance.” —Professor Jeremy Black, author of The Battle of Waterloo “Provides the reader with a good insight into the lives of ordinary French of the Napoleonic Wars . . . Direct accounts of campaigns and battle, recruitment and training, barrack life, the experience of captivity and being wounded are all here, based on letters written most by uneducated men to their immediate family . . . This really is fascinating stuff, and surely a ‘must’ for students of Napoleonic warfare.” —Stuart Asquith, author of Military Modelling: Guide to Solo Wargaming
Humanity S Soldier
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Author : David Chuter
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 1996
Humanity S Soldier written by David Chuter and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
A study detailing the historical, cultural and philosophical origins of French security policy since 1919. Chuter (Ministry of Defence, London) explains how and why security policy has developed since that time, arguing that the origins of current policy lie even further back in history and, through a cultural network of myths and symbolisms, continues to influence how the French perceive contemporary events--often to the bewilderment of Anglo-Saxon countries with a vastly different set of experiences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Soldier And Peasant In French Popular Culture 1766 1870
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Author : David M. Hopkin
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2003
Soldier And Peasant In French Popular Culture 1766 1870 written by David M. Hopkin and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
"Concentrating on the militarised borderlands of eastern France, this book examines the disjuncture between the patriotic expectations of elites and the sentiments expressed in folksongs, folktales and popular imagery, in which issues of sexuality, violence and separation took far greater prominence. Hopkin follows the soldier through his life-cycle, from greenhorn recruit to grizzled veteran, to show how the peasant conscript was separated from his previous life and re-educated in military mores (and the response that this transformation elicited from his family and community)."--BOOK JACKET.
Citizens Soldiers And National Armies
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Author : Thomas Hippler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-08-07
Citizens Soldiers And National Armies written by Thomas Hippler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with History categories.
The first systematic and comparative study of growth of military conscription in Europe An innovative fusion of primary empirical research and postmodern philosophy It will appeal to students of modern European history, political science, military history and intellectual history in general
What Soldiers Do
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Author : Mary Louise Roberts
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-05-10
What Soldiers Do written by Mary Louise Roberts and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-10 with Social Science categories.
This sobering account “vividly depicts the impact of the influx of hundreds of thousands of GIs on French society, especially on French women” (Foreign Affairs). How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: You dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it. “Many will appreciate this nuanced history of sex, war and power.” —Times Higher Education
Soldier And Warrior
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Author : H. L. Wesseling
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2000-01-30
Soldier And Warrior written by H. L. Wesseling and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-30 with History categories.
In France the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World War was characterized by a revival of nationalism and militarism. Wesseling analyzes the ideas current in France in this period about the use, value, and beauty of war, the army, and army life. In examining the French army of the period, Wesseling found that at the same time that new forms were sought, old values were being emphasized. Attempts at reforms were most frequent in those areas where antimilitarist writers had concentrated their criticism. Next to this there also was a new glorification of traditional military virtues: disinterestedness, submission, and discipline. In conceptualizing war, as Wesseling shows, a distinction can be made between speculations on war as a concrete phenomenon and as an abstract notion. During the period, war was looked upon as a factor of renewal and regeneration. The years from 1905 to 1914 were of great importance for the history of the military problem in France. A new appreciation of the ideals that were preached in the army came into being. Though this did not lead to militarism in the sense that the military determined politics, as Wesseling illustrates, it did lead to a militarist attitude.