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PATHS OF GLORY: The French Army 1914-18 (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.40944
EAN: 9780304366521
ISBN: 0304366528
Label: Cassell
Manufacturer: Cassell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2005-07
Publisher: Cassell
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Cassell
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Editorial Review:
The first major English account of World War 1 from a French perspective. 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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Outstanding Summary of French Army During WWI
The book summarizes all the famous major operations of the French Army during WWI, along with numerous thoughtfully-included maps and photos. It goes into much greater detail about the formation of French strategy, tactical doctrine, leading personalities, organization, equipment, logistics, and, significantly, unit morale (including the 1917 mutinies). In addition, the book also has a nice set of appendices with the August 1914 order-of-battle as well as summary bios of leading French generals. ... Read More
Rating:  - Almost one of a kind
As other reviewers have said, getting anything in English about the French army in WWI is difficult, especially compared to the numerous English and American accounts. I therefore snapped this book up immediately looking for an account of those little known engagements. It's a fine book, well researched and informative, well written for the most part. But it left me wanting more detail. It primarily looks at strategic and operational level action rather than the tactical. Excellent for understanding ... Read More
Rating: - The French Army
I enjoyed this book very much. Almost everything I've read on the Great War has been from either the British or American point of view. The author states in the preface that little of the French experience from WWI has been translated into English. I was very pleased that a book about the war from the French point of view was written in English. France after all had the majority of the troops and suffered the most looses on the Allied side. I had hoped the author whould have gone into more detail ... Read More
Rating: - Great Effort but Too Short
In Paths of Glory, former Sandhurst professor Anthony Clayton provides the first complete history of the French Army in the First World War. While the narrative is a bit short (200 pages) and does not offer the depth necessary to analyze operations in detail, Clayton's work represents an excellent overview of the army that bore the brunt of the fighting for the Allies on the Western Front in 1914-1918. Clayton also makes the point that this army, much maligned because of its poor preparation for combat ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent account of the French army during World War One
The author has done a splendid job of gathering his facts and doing his research. The book spells out the various campaigns, battles and commanders and the ordinary soldier. The book is rich with detail and informs the reader on the horrific conditions and enormous casualties the French suffered.
Easy to read and the chapters are detailed out well.
Worthy of any World War One bookshelf.
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