'It has to be good news that Prost's exemplary study can now be appreciated by a new generation of monoglot readers.'History'Prost's conclusions are persuasively argued, and historians of the verteran experience elsewhere would do well to take his book as a yardstick against which to measure their own work.'Canadian Military History
Translated from the French by Helen McPhailThis important study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.
Translated from the French, this study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.
Recollection; the veterans' movement; antimilitarism and pacifism; veterans' patriotism; veterans' politics - attitudes and ethics; veterans' politics - the middle classes and the regime; preface to Vichy and the Fourth Republic.
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Also available in paperback, 9780854963379 GBP19.99 (September, 1992)
Also available in paperback, 9780854963379 £19.99 (September, 1992)
Sponsored by the Historial de la grande guerre Péronne-Somme General Editor: Jay Winter, Yale University The series presents original monographs and reprints of important memoirs and accounts of the Great War. Included in the series are essential works of European scholarship previously unavailable in English.
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Product details
ISBN
9780854966721
Published
1992-09-04
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
160
Author
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