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Title: Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-1918 by Anthony Clayton ISBN: 0-304-35949-1 Publisher: Cassell Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost one of a kind
Comment: As other reviewers have said, getting anything in English about the French army in WWI is difficult, especially compared to the numerous English and American accounts. I therefore snapped this book up immediately looking for an account of those little known engagements. It's a fine book, well researched and informative, well written for the most part. But it left me wanting more detail. It primarily looks at strategic and operational level action rather than the tactical. Excellent for understanding the French command. I was hoping for more of a Lyn MacDonald approach. Perhaps this author will see these reviews calling for a more detailed view and write another in that vein. I would certainly purchase it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-1918
Comment: In the first full history of the French army of World War I to be written in English, Anthony Clayton investigates how France prepared for 1914 and how her army adjusted to the grim realities of warfare on the western front. He takes particular interest in the soldiers' morale: how, despite appalling losses and dreadful privations, the ordinary soldiers fought on until 1917 when widespread mutinies paralysed the army. It fell to two remarkable soldiers, Marshals Petain and Foch, to restore the soldiers' faith and lead them to victory in 1918
Rating: 4
Summary: The French Army
Comment: I enjoyed this book very much. Almost everything I've read on the Great War has been from either the British or American point of view. The author states in the preface that little of the French experience from WWI has been translated into English. I was very pleased that a book about the war from the French point of view was written in English. France after all had the majority of the troops and suffered the most looses on the Allied side. I had hoped the author whould have gone into more detail on French equipment and weapons than he did, but that in no way detracts from this fine book. I highly recommad this work for anyone interested in WWI.
David Murphy
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Title: The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 by Geoffrey Wawro ISBN: 0521584361 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by ROBERT K. MASSIE ISBN: 0679456716 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Battle of Koniggratz: Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866 by Gordon Alexander Craig ISBN: 0812218442 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Imperial German Army 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle by Hermann Cron, Ma Colton C. F., Duncan Rogers ISBN: 1874622701 Publisher: Helion & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $51.95 |
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Title: Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by JOHN KEEGAN ISBN: 0375400532 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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