The French Army and the First World War

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Elizabeth Greenhalgh is a QE II Research Fellow (Australian Research Council), based in the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. She has published a large number of refereed articles on aspects of the Great War, and is the author of Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge, 2005). In 2007 this book won the accolade of a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title. In 2011 she published Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General (Cambridge, 2011) and a French translation appeared in September 2013. For many years she was editor of War and Society, the international peer-reviewed military history journal. She has considerable experience of working in French and other European archives, and has presented papers on the First World War at conferences in Australia, Britain, France, Canada and the United States. Currently she is working on a study of 1918 analysing, as its title states, How the Allies Won.

Zusammenfassung

A comprehensive new history of the French army's critical contribution to the Great War. Elizabeth Greenhalgh 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The pre-war army; 2. 1914: from the frontiers to Flanders; 3. 1915: on the offensive; 4. 1916: Verdun and the Somme; 5. General Nivelle and his 1917 offensive; 6. Restoring the Army; 7. 1918: German offensives; 8. The path to victory; 9. Armistices and demobilisation; 10. From 1914 to 1919: aux armes, citoyens!; Bibliographic essay; Index.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107605688
ISBN-10:	1107605687
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Greenhalgh, Elizabeth
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,697 kg

Artikel-ID: 105333596

Über den Autor

Zusammenfassung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107605688
ISBN-10:	1107605687
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Greenhalgh, Elizabeth
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,697 kg