The French Army In The First World War

Author : Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701235X
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Army and the First World War written by Elizabeth Greenhalgh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.

Author : Anthony Clayton
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474603335
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths of Glory written by Anthony Clayton and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military, and his book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the First World War. He reveals why and how the French army fought as it did. He profiles its senior commanders - Joffre, Petain, Nivelle and Foch - and analyses its major campaigns both on the Western Front and in the Near East and Africa. PATHS OF GLORY also considers in detail the officers, how they kept their trenches and how men from very different areas of France fought and died together. He scrutinises the make-up and performance of France's large colonial armies, and investigates the mutinies of 1917. Ultimately, he reveals how the traumatic French experience of the 1914-18 war indelibly shaped a nation.

Author : Laurent Mirouze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783902526090
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Army in the First World War written by Laurent Mirouze and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume represents a snapshot of the army on 2 August 1914, before all the developments forced on it by the war. The second volume deal with the great changes precipitated by the flying corps and the special artillery with its first tanks.

Author : Andre Jouineau
Publisher : Histoire & Collections
ISBN 13 : 9782352501046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Officers and Soldiers of the French Army 1914 written by Andre Jouineau and published by Histoire & Collections. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little vade-mecum for newcomers to discover the "smartest army in Europe" and for amateurs to have a clear, simple and detailed guide to the main uniforms worn by French troops at the outset of the war.

Author : Dr Jonathan Krause
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409474674
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Trench Tactics in the French Army written by Dr Jonathan Krause and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the English-speaking world the First World War is all too often portrayed primarily as a conflict between Britain and Germany. The vast majority of books focus on the Anglo-German struggle, and ignore the dominant part played by the French, who for most of the war provided the bulk of the soldiers fighting against the central powers. As such, this important and timely book joins the small but growing collection of works offering an overdue assessment of the French contribution to the Great War. Drawing heavily on French primary sources the book has two main foci: it is both an in-depth battle narrative and analysis, as well as a work on the tactical evolution of the French army in Spring 1915 as it endeavored aggressively to come to grips with trench warfare. This period is of crucial importance as it was in these months that the French army learned the foundations of trench warfare on which their conduct for the remainder of the war would rest. The work argues that many advanced practices often considered German innovations - such as the rolling barrage, infiltration tactics, and the effective planning and integration of artillery bombardments - can all be traced back to French writing and action in early 1915. The work argues that - contrary to received opinion - French army bureaucracy proved effective at very quickly taking in, digesting and then disseminating lessons learned at the front and French commanders proved to be both effective and professional. Such radical conclusions demand a fundamental rethink of the way we view operations on the Western Front.

Author : Karl Deuringer
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750951796
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Battle of First World War written by Karl Deuringer and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though not so famous as the battles of Tannenberg or the Marne, the fight between the French and German armies at Alsace and Lorraine marks the first battle of World War IOn August 7, 1914, a week before the Battle of Tannenburg and two weeks before the Battle of the Marne, the French army attacked the Germans at Mulhouse in Alsace. Their objective was to recapture territory which had been lost after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, which made it a matter of pride for the French. However, after initial success in capturing Mulhouse, the Germans were able to reinforce more quickly, and drove them back within three days. After 43 years of peace, this was the first test of strength between France and Germany. In 1929 Karl Deuringer wrote the official history of the battle for the Bavarian Army, an immensely detailed work of 890 pages; World War I expert and former army officer Terence Zuber has translated this study and edited it down to more accessible length, to produce the first account in English of the first major battle of the World War I.

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526701812
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Air Force in the First World War written by Ian Sumner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution it made to the eventual French victory, is often forgotten. So Ian Sumner's photographic history, which features almost 200 images, most of which have not been published before, is a fascinating and timely introduction to the subject. The fighter pilots, who usually dominate perceptions of the war in the air, play a leading role in the story, in particular the French aces, the small group of outstanding airmen whose exploits captured the publics imagination. Their fame, though, tends to distract attention from the ordinary unremembered airmen who formed the body of the air force throughout the war years. Ian Sumner tells their story too, as well as describing in a sequence of memorable photographs the less well-known branches of the service the bomber and reconnaissance pilots and the variety of primitive warplanes they flew.

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473856205
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Army in the First World War written by Ian Sumner and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the conflict. Now, though, keen interest in the war in general and in the part the French played in it has prompted a fresh appreciation of their army and the men who served in it. Ian Sumner’s wide-ranging photographic history is an important contribution in this growing field. Using a selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs, he provides a graphic overview of every aspect of a French soldier’s service during the struggle. But while the photographs create a fascinating all-round portrait of the French poilu at war, they also give an insight into the army as a whole, and offer a rare French perspective on the Great War.

Author : Michael Goya
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473886988
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh and Steel During the Great War written by Michael Goya and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted military historian presents an illuminating study of trench warfare during WWI—and how it influenced the French Army’s evolution. Michel Goya’s Flesh and Steel during the Great War is a major contribution to our understanding of the French Army’s experience on the Western Front, and how that experience impacted the future of its military theory and practice. Goya explores the way in which the senior commanders and ordinary soldiers responded to the extraordinary challenges posed by the mass industrial warfare of the early twentieth century. In 1914 the French army went to war with a flawed doctrine, brightly-colored uniforms and a dire shortage of modern, heavy artillery. How then, over four years of relentless, attritional warfare, did it become the great, industrialized army that emerged victorious in 1918? To show how this change occurred, the author examines the pre-war ethos and organization of the army. He describes in telling detail how, through a process of analysis and innovation, the French army underwent the deepest and fastest transformation in its history.

Author : Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316060683
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Army and the First World War written by Elizabeth Greenhalgh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.