Full name: Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18

Author: Anthony Clayton Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780304366521 0304366528

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. Similar books: Pyrrhic Victory by Robert A. Doughty To Conquer Hell by Edward G. Lengel To the Last Man by Lyn MacDonald The Kaiser's Battle by Martin Middlebrook The Somme by Robin Prior Eye-Deep In Hell by John Ellis They Called it Passchendaele by Lyn MacDonald The Somme by Peter Hart The Myth of the Great War by John Mosier Somme by Lyn MacDonald 1915 by Lyn MacDonald Death's Men by Denis Winter The Somme by Martin Gilbert 1914 by Lyn MacDonald The Great War by Peter Hart The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery