French Army 1918

Author : Anthony Clayton
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474603335
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths of Glory written by Anthony Clayton and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316060683
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Army and the First World War written by Elizabeth Greenhalgh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive new history of the French army's critical contribution to the Great War. Ranging across all fronts, Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the French army's achievements and failures and sets these in the context of the difficulties of coalition warfare and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the enemy forces it faced. Drawing from new archival sources, she reveals the challenges of dealing with and replenishing a mass conscript army in the face of slaughter on an unprecedented scale, and shows how, through trials and defeats, French generals and their troops learned to adapt and develop techniques which eventually led to victory. In a unique account of the largest Allied army on the Western Front, she revises our understanding not only of wartime strategy and combat, but also of other crucial aspects of France's war, from mutinies and mail censorship to medical services, railways and weapons development.

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848842090
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Shall Not Pass written by Ian Sumner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. Their testimony gives a striking insight into the mentality of the troops and their experience of combat, their emotional ties to their relatives at home, their opinions about their commanders and their fellow soldiers, the appalling conditions and dangers they endured, and their attitude to their German enemy. In their own words, in diaries, letters, reports and memoirs - most of which have never been published in English before - they offer a fascinating inside view of the massive life-and-death struggle that took place on the Western Front. Ian Sumner provides a concise narrative of the war in order to give a clear context to the eyewitness material. In effect the reader is carried through the experience of each phase of the war on the Western Front and sees events as soldiers and civilians saw them at the time. This emphasis on eyewitness accounts provides an approach to the subject that is completely new for an English-language publication. The authorÍs pioneering work will appeal to readers who may know something about the British and German armies on the Western Front, but little about the French army which bore the brunt of the fighting on the allied side. His book represents a milestone in publishing on the Great War.

Author : Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918 written by Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson and published by . This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781599084
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Shall Not Pass written by Ian Sumner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sumner’s brilliant window onto the French army is a book I cannot recommend highly enough . . . Full of detail and mixed with vivid personal accounts.”—War History Online This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. Their testimony gives a striking insight into the mentality of the troops and their experience of combat, their emotional ties to their relatives at home, their opinions about their commanders and their fellow soldiers, the appalling conditions and dangers they endured, and their attitude to their German enemy. In their own words, in diaries, letters, reports and memoirs—most of which have never been published in English before—they offer a fascinating inside view of the massive life-and-death struggle that took place on the Western Front. The author’s pioneering work will appeal to readers who may know something about the British and German armies on the Western Front, but little about the French army which bore the brunt of the fighting on the allied side. His book represents a milestone in publishing on the Great War. “An interesting, well-written and informative book which goes a long way to explaining why the French army mounted the staunch defense of its homeland that it did.”—Burton Mail “The text is skillfully put together and moves seamlessly from one voice to another while illuminating the flow of events that affected Frenchmen and women during the Great War.”—Stand To! The Western Front Association

Author : Andre Jouineau
Publisher : Histoire & Collections
ISBN 13 : 9782352501046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Officers and Soldiers of the French Army 1914 written by Andre Jouineau and published by Histoire & Collections. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little vade-mecum for newcomers to discover the "smartest army in Europe" and for amateurs to have a clear, simple and detailed guide to the main uniforms worn by French troops at the outset of the war.

Author : Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701235X
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Army and the First World War written by Elizabeth Greenhalgh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.

Author : André Jouineau
Publisher : Officers and Soldiers of
ISBN 13 : 9782352501053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Army 1918 written by André Jouineau and published by Officers and Soldiers of. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1914 the French Army had 47 divisions (777,000 French and 46,000 colonial troops) in 21 regional corps, with attached cavalry and field-artillery units. By 1918 about 40% of all French troops on the Western Front were artillerymen. Increasing use of machine-guns, armoured cars and tanks also reduced the numbers in the infantry. This volume examines the French Army's last year of the Great War.

Author : Richard S. Fogarty
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801888247
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and War in France written by Richard S. Fogarty and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Reuters Limited
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Official Review of the First Six Months of the War written by Reuters Limited and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: