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Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918

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Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918 by Richard S. Fogarty
ISBN: 9781421407661
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press on December 5th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, France, Military, World War I, General, Strategy, Social History
Pages: 400

Len's Summary: Paperback version of an excellent social-military-political history first published by Johns Hopkins in 2008. How French egalitarianism was challenged by the conscription of more than half a million colonial troops during WWI, a “blood tax” levied on her African and Asian subjects. // An excellent scholarly analysis of colonial troops at war; a study of contradictory and paradoxical French policies on race, culture and religion in wartime drawing on individual experiences among the half million African, Arab and Asian soldiers who served France in WWI. Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta First Book Prize. The author teaches at SUNY Albany.

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Years of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great War

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Years of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great WarYears of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great War by Benjamin F. Martin
ISBN: 9780875804682
Published by Northern Illinois University Press on March 15th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, France
Pages: 239

Len's Summary: A political-social history of France from the early 1900s to the beginning of WWII.

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Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War

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Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great WarVerdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War by Paul Jankowski
ISBN: 9780199316892
Published by OUP USA on February 3rd 2014
Genres: History, General, Europe, France, Military, World War I
Pages: 336

Len's Summary: A new narrative history of WWI’s best known battle.

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Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive

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Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August OffensiveClimax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive by Rhys Crawley
ISBN: 9780806144269
Published by University of Oklahoma Press on 2014
Genres: History, Europe, France, Military, World War I, Middle East, Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Pages: 364

Len's Summary: Examines the performance of the Allied Mediterranean Expeditionary Force throughout the campaign. // A history of “what if?’

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A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War

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A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great WarA Fraternity of Arms by Robert Bowman Bruce
ISBN: 9780700612536
Published by University Press of Kansas on 2003
Genres: History, Europe, France, Military, Strategy, World War I, Political Science, International Relations, General
Pages: 380

Len's Summary: Thanks in large measure to expert (and often bilingual) French instructors a core of four 28,000-man divisions of the American army was ready to join the French in blunting and then reversing the final German push on Paris at the Marne in July 1918. It is in the resounding German setback on the Marne of July 18, 1918 – not their August 8th defeat by the British at Amiens – that Bruce finds the beginning of the end for German arms on the Western Front.

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Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War

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Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great WarPyrrhic Victory ISBN: 9780674034310
Published by Belknap Press on March 31, 2008
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, France, Western
Pages: 592

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