Between Mutiny and Obedience : : The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I / / Leonard V. Smith.
Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. Leonard Smith, however, argues that a complex dialogue of resistance and negotiation existed between French soldiers and their own commanders. In this case study of wartime mi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 12 halftones 1 line illus. 15 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Chapter I. Introduction: The Theory of War, Obedience, and Military Authority
- Chapter II. The Army and the Republic in Provincial France: Military Life in Rouen before August 1914
- Chapter III. The Battles of August-September 1914: The Pieces of Defeat, Victory, and Proportionality
- Chapter IV. The New 5e DI and the New War: The Social World of Trench Warfare
- Chapter V. From Percée to Grignotage: The 1915 Offensives at Neuville-St. Vaast
- Chapter VI. The Crisis in Pitched Battle: Verdun, 1916
- Chapter VII. The Crisis in Trench Warfare: Les Eparges
- Chapter VIII. The Implicit Struggle Becomes Explicit: The Mutinies of 1917
- Chapter IX. The Grandeur and Miseries of Proportionality: June 1917- November 1918
- Chapter X. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index