The Military Forces of France
Author | : John C. Cornelius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John C. Cornelius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John C. Cornelius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Marcel Vigneras |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
The reemergence of French national forces in the war against the Axis Powers, and the role of large-scale American aid.
Author | : Robert A. Doughty |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811714608 |
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
Author | : Jean Paul Bertaud |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069119808X |
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.
Author | : Elizabeth Greenhalgh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110701235X |
A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.
Author | : John C. Cornelius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lee B. Kennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert A. Doughty |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2008-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674263049 |
As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favoring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts around the periphery of the German, Austrian, and Ottoman empires and eventually break the enemy's defenses. But France did not have sufficient resources to push the Germans back from the Western Front and attack elsewhere. The offensives they launched proved costly, and their tactical and operational methods ranged from remarkably effective to disastrously ineffective. Using extensive archival research, Doughty explains why France pursued a multi-front strategy and why it launched numerous operations as part of that strategy. He also casts new light on France's efforts to develop successful weapons and methods and the attempts to use them in operations. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, Pyrrhic Victory is destined to become the standard account of the French army in the Great War.
Author | : Thomas Hippler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2007-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134130023 |
This book examines the creation of ‘national armies’ through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period. The French Revolution tried to establish military and political structures in which the armed forces and society would merge. In order to ensure that the army would never become a means of oppression against the people, the whole population should thus ‘be’ the army. Defeated by the enormous military potential that these new political settings had unchained in France, Prussia adapted the French innovations to its own needs, thus laying the basis for its contributions to the victories of the coalition troops in 1813-15. Conscription had implications that went beyond the purely military sphere and involved assumptions about the nature of the state and its relationship to its citizens. It was the material basis of Napoleon’s campaigns and of the German ‘wars of national liberation’ of 1813-15, before becoming a cornerstone of the Prussian Reforms and the creation of a civil society ‘from above’. Military service has therefore been one of the most essential and contradictory institutions of the modern nation-state. Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies will be of interest to historians of modern Europe, military historians and students of intellectual history in general.