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Author : D. Barlone
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A French Officer's Diary (23 August 1939-1 October 1940) written by D. Barlone and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1942 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Barlone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436705691
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)
Download or read book A French Officer's Diary written by D. Barlone and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : D. Barlone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494029531
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (295 download)
Download or read book A French Officer's Diary written by D. Barlone and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Author : Daniel Barlone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book A French Officer's Diary written by Daniel Barlone and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Barlone (Ct.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book A French Officer's Diary written by Daniel Barlone (Ct.) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162232X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Fall of France written by Julian Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten, rushed to Paris to meet the French leaders. The mood in the meeting was one of panic and despair; there was talk of evacuating Paris. Churchill asked Gamelin, the French Commander in Chief, 'Where is the strategic reserve?' 'There is none,' replied Gamelin. This exciting book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the greatest bastions of the Western Allies, and thus to a dramatic new phase of the Second World War. The search for scapegoats for the most humiliating military disaster in French history began almost at once: were miscalculations by military leaders to blame, or was this an indictment of an entire nation? Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Julian Jackson recreates, in gripping detail, the intense atmosphere and dramatic events of these six weeks in 1940, unravelling the historical evidence to produce a fresh answer to the perennial question of whether the fall of France was inevitable.
Author : Eleanor M. Gates
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520313712
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book End of the Affair written by Eleanor M. Gates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441106359
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Britain and France in Two World Wars written by Robert Tombs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in 1940, Dunkirk, and British involvement in the French Resistance and the 1944 Liberation. The contributors discuss how the two countries tend to forget what they owe to each other, and have a distorted view of history which still colours and prejudices their relationship today, despite government efforts to build a close political and military partnership.
Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803220944
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The French Colonial Mind: Violence, military encounters and colonialism written by Martin Thomas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence was prominent in France?s conquest of a colonial empire, and the use of force was integral to its control and regulation of colonial territories. What, if anything, made such violence distinctly colonial? And how did its practitioners justify or explain it? These are issues at the heart of The French Colonial Mind: Violence, Military Encounters, and Colonialism. The second of two linked volumes, this book brings together prominent scholars of French colonial history to explore the many ways in which brutality and killing became central to the French experience and management of empire. Sometimes concealed or denied, at other times highly publicized and even celebrated, French violence was so widespread that it was in some ways constitutive of colonial identity. Yet such violence was also destructive: destabilizing for its practitioners and lethal or otherwise devastating for its victims. The manifestations of violence in the minds and actions of imperialists are investigated here in essays that move from the conquest of Algeria in the 1830s to the disintegration of France?s empire after World War II. The authors engage a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from the violence of first colonial encounters to conflicts of decolonization. Each considers not only the forms and extent of colonial violence but also its dire effects on perpetrators and victims. Together, their essays provide the clearest picture yet of the workings of violence in French imperialist thought.
Author : Douglas Fermer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473831458
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Three German Invasions of France written by Douglas Fermer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tension and rivalry between France and Germany shaped the history of Western Europe in the century from 1860. Three times that hostility led to war and the invasion of France - in 1870, 1914 and 1940. The outcomes of the battles that followed reset the balance of power across the continent. Yet the German invasions tend to be viewed as separate events, in isolation, rather than as connected episodes in the confrontation between the two nations. Douglas Fermer's fresh account of the military campaigns and the preparations for them treats them as part of a cycle of fear, suspicion, animosity and conflicting ambitions extending across several generations. In a clear, concise account of the decisive opening phase of each campaign, he describes the critical decision-making, the manoeuvres and clashes of arms in eastern France as German forces advanced westwards. As the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War approaches, this is a fitting moment to reconsider these momentous events and how they fit into the broad sweep of European history.
Author : Chris Pearson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130580
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Mobilizing nature written by Chris Pearson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France, from the creation of Châlons Camp in 1857 to military environmentalist policies in the twentieth century. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known histories of the Franco-Prussian War, Western Front (1914-18), Second World War, Cold War and the anti-base campaign at Larzac, whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside. Mobilising nature argues that the history of war and militarisation can only be fully understood if human and environmental histories are considered in tandem. Preparing for and conducting wars were only made possible through the active manipulation and mobilisation of topographies, climatic conditions, vegetation and animals. But the military has not monopolised the mobilisation of nature. Protesters against militarisation have consistently drawn on images of peaceful and productive civilian environments as the preferable alternative to destructive tanks and bombs. Written in an accessible style, Mobilizing nature will appeal to readers interested in modern France, environmental history, military geographies and histories, anti-military protests, and environmentalism.
Author : Nick Smart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351125869
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Second World War written by Nick Smart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest recorded war in history and the most intense period of global instability in the twentieth century, was fought by many different states, large and small, over differing periods of time and for many different reasons. In an area where there is no shortage of material to choose from, the articles presented here are distinguished for their depth of scholarship, stylistic elegance and inter-disciplinary confidence.
Author : Eugenia C. Kiesling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arming Against Hitler written by Eugenia C. Kiesling and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharif Gemie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441102442
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Outcast Europe written by Sharif Gemie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original perspective on the experience of refugees and relief workers.
Author : Martin S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524292
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (242 download)
Download or read book The Republic in Danger written by Martin S. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study in English of 'the man who lost the Battle of France'.
Author : Richard Carswell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030039552
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Fall of France in the Second World War written by Richard Carswell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period. This view has been largely replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within which France’s policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making failures in economics, defence and diplomacy.
Author : Lloyd Clark
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190340
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Blitzkrieg written by Lloyd Clark and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterly account” of the juggernaut offensive that conquered France—but also marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews). In the spring of 1940, the German forces launched an attack on France that combined superb intelligence, cutting edge strategy, and new technology—the blitzkrieg, or “lightning war.” In just six weeks, it would achieve what their fathers had failed to do in all four years of the First World War. It was a stunning victory. But here, leading British military historian and academic Lloyd Clark argues that much of our understanding of this victory is based on myth. Far from being a foregone conclusion, Hitler’s plan could easily have failed had the Allies been even slightly less inept or the Germans less fortunate. The Germans recognized that success depended not only on surprise, but also avoiding a protracted struggle for which they were not prepared—making defeat a very real possibility. Their surprise victory proved the apex of their achievement; far from being undefeatable, Clark argues, the Battle of France revealed Germany and its armed forces to be highly vulnerable. And Hitler dismissed this fact as he planned his next move—and greatest blunder: the invasion of the Soviet Union. In this eye-opening reassessment, complete with maps and illustrations, Clark “presents a well-balanced narrative that highlights the knife-edge victory of the German forces” and reveals how very close the Nazi war machine came to catastrophe in the early days of World War II (New York Journal of Books).
