Author: John C. CorneliusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Military Forces of France
Author: John C. CorneliusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 308
Book Description
Military Forces of France
Author: John C. CorneliusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Seeds of Disaster
Author: Robert A. DoughtyPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811714608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An examination of the military doctrine that animated the French defense against the German invasion in 1940. • Argues that the French learned the wrong lessons from World War I and were ill prepared for World War II • Lessons for modern armies about how to learn from past wars and prepare for future wars • Winner of the Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association
Rearming the French
Author: Marcel VignerasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The reemergence of French national forces in the war against the Axis Powers, and the role of large-scale American aid.
The Army of the French Revolution
Author: Jean Paul BertaudPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119808X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Revolution armee is the authortative treatment of the firest great national, patriotic, revolutionary, and mass army, engaged in what has been called the first total war: that between revolutionary France and the other European powers. The book is a successful attempt to integrate military history with social and political history and thereby to depict the army as a "school for the republic" that by subtle changes after 1795 made way for the Napoleonic regime. The distinguished historian R.R. Palmer presents the first translation of this work into English in a volume that will quickly become indispensable for French historians, historical sociologists, and political scientists interested in armies and revolutions. The theme of the book is suggested by its French title: "the Revolution armed." That is, the book is primarily about the Revolution, and specifically the Revolution in its relation to armed force. This revolution, and this army, activated the idea of the citizen-soldier exemplified by the ancient classical republics, and favored by Jean-jacques Rousseau and other eighteenth-century thinkers, but never before realized on so large and portentous a scale as in France in the 1790s. Jean-Paul Bertaud is Professor of Modern History at the University of Paris I (the Sorbonne). He has published widely in France on aspects of the French Revolution. R.R. Palmer is Professor Emeritus at Yale University and author of numerous books, including the two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959 and 1964), Twelve Who Ruled (1941), and The Improvement of Humanity: Education and the French Revolution (1985), all published by Princeton University Press. He has translated many works from the French, most recently The Two Tocquevilles, Father and Son: Herve and Alexis de TOcqueville on the Coming of the French Revolution (Princeton, 1987). Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Rearming the French
Author: Marcel VignerasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The reemergence of French national forces in the war against the Axis Powers, and the role of large-scale American aid.
The French Army and the First World War
Author: Elizabeth GreenhalghPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701235X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.
The French Armies in the Seven Years' War
Author: Lee B. KennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
France and Its Armed Forces
Author: France. Ambassade (U.S.). Service de presse et d'informationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The French Foreign Legion
Author: Jean-Denis G.G. LepagePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book gives the reader a straightforward and continuous survey of the history of the French Foreign Legion. By outlining the Legion's vicissitudes, victorious campaigns, epic marches, heroic and sometimes hopeless stands, dirtiest combats and dramatic defeats, but also by briefly placing the Legion back in the historical background of France, and by describing its development, organization, uniforms, equipments and weapons, the author hopes to dispel myths, and try to give a true and accurate picture of what the French Foreign Legion has been from 1831 until today. There are well-researched, detailed line drawings throughout.