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Author : John F. V. Keiger
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : France
ISBN : 0312302924
Author : Leonard V. Smith,Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau,Annette Becker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521666317
France and the Great War tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. In this 2003 book, Leonard Smith and his co-authors synthesize many years of scholarship, examining the origins of the war from a diplomatic and military viewpoint, before shifting their emphasis to socio-cultural and economic history when discussing the civilian and military war culture. They look at the 'total' mobilization of the French national community, as well as the military and civilian crises of 1917, and the ambiguous victory of 1918. The book concludes by revealing how traces of the Great War can still be found in the political and cultural life of the French national community. This lively, accessible and engaging book will be of enormous value to students of the Great War.
Author : William Siborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP2FG
A history of the battles of the Waterloo campaign in 1815, of which the defeat of the French forces would end the Napoleonic Wars and mark the end of Napoleon's reign.
Author : Valerie Holman,Debra Kelly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1571817018
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 : William Francis Patrick Napier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : NLS:V001494278
Author : Robert J. Young
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782388296
Studies on the First World War are plentiful but most tend to focus on the combatants. This volume offers a new and highly original perspective that shows the reader the civilian side of this protracted and destructive war through a succession of "snapshots": 130 excerpts from leading American and Canadian newspapers provide a collective portrait of life behind the battle lines, what is often called the "second" front. Written principally by Paris-based journalists, and intended for popular reading audiences, these articles depict ordinary people in a way that still touches the reader of today. They record eye-witness testimony of Paris under aerial bombardment, the gutted cathedrals at Reims and Arras, the cemeteries around Compiègne, the subterranean living quarters at Cambrai, and the heart-breaking orphanages at Chambly. Introduced and concluded by the editor, the volume also offers biographical notes on some of the leadingjournalist contributors, maps to familiarize readers with the geography of northern France, and detailed subject and geographical indices. The volume ends with a select bibliography of works on the subject of French civilian life during the Great War.
Author : P. Lorcin,D. Brewer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230100763
This book offers a critical study of the cultural and social phenomena of war in the French and French-speaking world through a number of lenses, including memory, gender, the arts, and intellectual history.
Author : Richard Carswell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030039554
This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period. This view has been largely replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within which France’s policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making failures in economics, defence and diplomacy.
Author : Edmund Ollier
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022632493
This comprehensive history of the Franco-Prussian War provides a detailed overview of the events leading up to the conflict, as well as accounts of the major battles and political developments. Written by Edmund Ollier, a noted historian of the 19th century, this book is a must-read for military historians and enthusiasts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tyler Edward Stovall
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054112266
Asking how France has managed to preserve and shape her sense of national identity in the intervening years since the war, Professor Stovall explores the French postwar recovery and the 30 years of prosperity that followed.
Author : Stève Sainlaude
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469649955
France's involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power's role remain little understood. Here, Steve Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France. Reaching beyond the standard narratives of this history, Sainlaude delves deeply into questions of geopolitical strategy and diplomacy during this critical period in world affairs. The resulting study will help shift the way Americans look at the Civil War and extend their understanding of the conflict in global context.
Author : Hewson Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Europe
ISBN : BCUL:1094409442
Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521287847
The Paris Commune of 1871 is one of the great romantic failures in revolutionary history. Yet very little is known about its enemies, and especially the army, which first fraternized with the revolutionaries and then, two months later, crushed them with the utmost violence. This book, based on extensive archival research, is the first serious study of the role of the army in the civil war. It examines its composition and organization, its weaknesses and their effect on government policy, the steps taken to improve morale and discipline, the state of mind of officers and men and, finally, the conduct of the army in battle and the causes of the final bloodshed, in which about 20,000 Parisians were killed in the fighting or executed afterwards. Its purpose is to cast new light on the policy of the government and the problems of using an army in a civil war, and to tell for the first time the full tragedy of the suppression of the Comune, one of the bloodiest and least understood social conflicts in the history of modern Europe.
Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472112200
For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles - including such glorious victories as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, but then the English run of success began to fail, and in four short years she lost Normandy and finally her last stronghold in Guyenne. The protagonists of the Hundred Year War are among the most colourful in European history: for the English, Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V, later immortalized by Shakespeare; for the French, the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London, Charles V, who very nearly overcame England and the enigmatic Charles VII, who did at last drive the English out.
Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300224948
A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France. On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . . Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army advanced, spreading rumors that amplified still more the ordeal of war. Citizens of enemy countries who were living in France were viciously scapegoated. Drawing from diaries, personal correspondence, police reports, and government archives, Bruno Cabanes renders an intimate, narrative-driven study of the first weeks of World War I in France. Told from the perspective of ordinary women and men caught in the flood of mobilization, this revealing book deepens our understanding of the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians alike. “An exceptional book, a brilliant, moving, and insightful analysis of national mobilization.” —Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War “This book deserves a wide readership from historians, critics and anyone interested in the catastrophe of war.” —Mary Louise Roberts, Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison “The sounds, sights and emotions of August, 1914 are all evoked with exceptional skill.” —David A. Bell, author of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
