Fighting France
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stéphane Lauzanne |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Fighting France" by Stéphane Lauzanne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2023-01-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 336833266X |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 8728127447 |
‘Fighting France’ is a collection of essays, written by Wharton, on the outbreak of the First World War. Having returned to her beloved France to work with the Red Cross, Wharton began detailing the impact of the conflict on her spiritual homeland. While she uses her literary talents to paint a harrowing picture of the devastation caused by the war, she always puts people, rather than places, under the spotlight. A fascinating read from the time of Downton Abbey for anyone interested in military history and exceptional journalism of the early 20th Century. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2023-09-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387032676 |
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author | : Valerie Holman |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781571817709 |
"There are suggestive and interesting contributions ... Historians of modern France and historians interested in the cultural aspects of war will find much to engage with in this stimulating collection." - French History France experienced four major conflicts in the fifty years between 1914 and 1964: two world wars, and the wars in Indochina and Algeria. In each the role of myth was intricately bound up with memory, hope, belief, and ideas of nation. This is the first book to explore how individual myths were created, sustained, and used for purposes of propaganda, examining in detail not just the press, radio, photographs, posters, films, and songs that gave credence to an imagined event or attributed mythical status to an individual, but also the cultural processes by which such artifacts were disseminated and took effect. Reliance on myth, so the authors argue, is shown to be one of the most significant and durable features of 20th century warfare propaganda, used by both sides in all the conflicts covered in this book. However, its effective and useful role in time of war notwithstanding, it does distort a population's perception of reality and therefore often results in defeat: the myth-making that began as a means of sustaining belief in France's supremacy, and later her will and ability to resist, ultimately proved counterproductive in the process of decolonization.
Author | : Colin Smith |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0297857819 |
Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42. Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent conflict than this. Under the terms of its armistice with Nazi Germany, the unoccupied part of France and its substantial colonies were ruled from the spa town of Vichy by the government of Marshal Philip Petain. Between July 1940 and November 1942, while Britain was at war with Germany, Italy and ultimately Japan, it also fought land, sea and air battles with the considerable forces at the disposal of Petain's Vichy French. When the Royal Navy sank the French Fleet at Mers El-Kebir almost 1,300 French sailors died in what was the twentieth century's most one-sided sea battle. British casualties were nil. It is a wound that has still not healed, for undoubtedly these events are better remembered in France than in Britain. An embarrassment at the time, France's maritime massacre and the bitter, hard-fought campaigns that followed rarely make more than footnotes in accounts of Allied operations against Axis forces. Until now.
Author | : Tracy Adams |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2015-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271066334 |
In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions in fifteenth-century France. Contrary to what many scholars have long believed, Christine consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. By focusing on the historical context of the Armagnac-Burgundian feud at different moments and offering close readings of Christine’s poetry and prose, Adams shows the ways in which the writer was closely engaged with and influenced the volatile politics of her time.
Author | : Michael Dale Doubler |
Publisher | : Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Bocage normand (France) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781986187169 |
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.