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Between mutiny and obedience : the case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I /

Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. Leonard Smith, however, argues that a complex dialogue of resistance and negotiation existed between French soldiers and their own commanders. In this case study of wartime mi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Leonard V., 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1994]
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Chapter I. Introduction: The Theory of War, Obedience, and Military Authority
  • Chapter II. The Army and the Republic in Provincial France: Military Life in Rouen before August 1914
  • Chapter III. The Battles of August-September 1914: The Pieces of Defeat, Victory, and Proportionality
  • Chapter IV. The New 5
  • Chapter V. From Percée to Grignotage: The 1915 Offensives at Neuville-St. Vaast
  • Chapter VI. The Crisis in Pitched Battle: Verdun, 1916
  • Chapter VII. The Crisis in Trench Warfare: Les Eparges
  • Chapter VIII. The Implicit Struggle Becomes Explicit: The Mutinies of 1917
  • Chapter IX. The Grandeur and Miseries of Proportionality: June 1917- November 1918
  • Chapter X. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.