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Years of Plenty, Years of Want : France and the Legacy of the Great War /
The Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most of the fighting on the Western Front. French dead numbered more than 1.3 million, the permanently disabled another 1.1 million - overwhelmingly men in their twenties and thirties....
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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DeKalb, IL :
NIU Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most of the fighting on the Western Front. French dead numbered more than 1.3 million, the permanently disabled another 1.1 million - overwhelmingly men in their twenties and thirties. The decade and a half before the war had been years of plenty, a time of increasing prosperity and confidence remembered as the Belle Epoque or the good old days. The two decades that followed its end were years of want, loss, misery, and fear. In 1914, France went to war convinced of victory - in 1939, France went to war dreading defeat. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781501758188 |