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Clayton, Anthony,
PATHS OF GLORY: The French Army, 1914-18
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NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (Orion Publishing, 2003).
~~~ A world-famous expert on the French military
provides a major contribution to our understanding of
World War I. He reveals why and how the French army
fought as it did, with profiles of the senior
commanders--Joffre, Pétain, Nivelle, and Foch--and
analyzes the major campaigns on the Western Front, the
Near East and Africa. There are details on the
trenches, the makeup and performance of colonial
armies, the mutinies of 1917, and how, ultimately,
the wartime
experience helped shape the nation.
~~~ Currently in print at $29.95.
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Georges
CLEMENCEAU
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(Clemenceau), Dallas, Gregor,
AT THE HEART OF THE TIGER: Clemenceau and His World, 1841-1929
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VG/VG. No obvious
flaws except a black remainder mark on bottom of book. Jacket in
mylar, original "$28.95" price still intact on jacket flap.
(NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc, 1993). VG+/VG+.
Photographs, appendix, bibliogrphy, index, 620 pages.
~~~ "What
Winston Churchill was to the Second World War, Georges Clemenceau was to
the First. In the eyes of posterity, he is the 'Tiger,' the unyielding
and defiant leader who in a single year turned the Allied Forces,
bled white in their trenches and riven by mutiny, into the victors
of 1918."
~~~ "Stubborn, contrary French premier Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), who helped unify the Allied war effort and who rallied his country to victory in WW I, was a model of resistance to Churchill and de Gaulle, yet his heroism is not well known to English-speaking readers. This sprawling, exceptionally vivid biography gives us Clemenceau's many facets--country doctor, foreign correspondent in the New York of corrupt Democratic boss William Tweed, embattled mayor of Montmartre during the bloody Paris Commune, eloquent defender of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, literary friend of Zola and Mallarme, enraged cuckolded husband, war hero. An intensely private man, Clemenceau destroyed much of his personal papers. Dallas ( The Imperfect Peasant Economy ), who lives in France, rounds out this portrait with graphic accounts of internecine French politics, German imperialism, Parisian working-class conditions, the carnage of WW I and Clemenceau's friendship with Claude Monet.
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~~~ OUT OF PRINT.
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Davis, Richard Harding,
WITH THE FRENCH IN FRANCE AND SALONIKA.
VG. A tight, clean copy with very little wear except for
minor chipping of lettering on cover.
(NY: Scribners, 1916). Frontispiece photograph. 275 pp.
~~~ TABLE OF CONTENTS: President Poincare Thanks America;
The Mud Trenches of Artois;
The Zigzag Front of Champagne;
From Paris to the Piraeus;
Why King Constantine Is Neutral;
With the Allies in Salonika;
Two Boys Against an Army;
The French-British Front in Serbia;
Verdun and St Mihiel;
War in the Vosges;
Hints for Those Who Want to Help;
London, A Year Later.
~~~ From the author's Preface: "This book was written during the three last months of 1915 and the first month
of this year (April, 1916) in the form of letters from France, Greece, Serbia, and England. the writer visited ten of the
twelve sectors of the French front, seeing most of them from the first trench, and was also on the French-British
front in the Balkans. Outside of Paris the Fernch cities visited were Verdun, Amiens, St Die, Arras, Chalons,
Nancy, and Rheims. What he saw served to strengthen his admiration for the French army and, as individuals and
as a nation, for the French people, and to increase his confidence in the ultimate success of their arms."
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Marshall
Ferdinand
FOCH
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(Foch), Atteridge, A. Hilliard,
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH: His Life and His Theory of Modern War
.VG. Lacks dust jacket.
(NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1919). Tight, clean copy
with no shelf-wear. Spine very slightly darkened. Top edge of
pages soiled. Eight maps. 286 pages.
~~~ CONTENTS: First Years & Education; Army Career up to 1905; Foch's First Principles of War; The Advanced Guard; The Battle; Criticism of German Leadership; The Coming of the Great War; Foch's Forecast of the War; The Battle of Morhange; The Battle of the Trouee de Charmes; The Ninth Army in the Battle of the Marne; The Victorious Manoeuvre; Foch at Ypres; The Second Battle of Ypres; Battle of the Somme; Chief of the French General Staff; "Co-ordinator" of the Allied Operations; Commander-in-Chief of the Allies; The Decisive Counter-Attack; Personal Characteristics.
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$40.00
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[Foch] Major Robert M. Johnston, U.S.N.A.,
GENERAL FOCH: An Appreciation.
VG/Fair. Jacket, which is in a mylar protector, is soiled and
chipped along extremities, with pieces
missing from head & heel of spine. Jacket flap has US Government
War Savings Stamp logo. Book covers are darkened
along extremities but otherwise unworn and tight. Interior
clean. Color portrait inset onto front cover. 54 pages.
(Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918).
~~~ CONTENTS:
I. Youth; II. The Teacher and Theorist; III. The War; IV. The Present Crises.
~~~ Wartime book in scarce jacket.
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Franks, Norman, and Frank Bailey,
THE STORKS: The Story of France's Elite Fighter Groupe de Combat 12 (Les Cigognes) in WWI. Grub Street, 1998. Photographs, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, 160 pages. "Born during the horrendous Battle of Verdun in 1916, The Storks became France's premier fighting group in World War I. ~~~ Initially comprising the Escadrilles N3, N26, N73 N103 and under the leadership of Felix Brocard, GC12 counted among its fighter pilots most of the big French aces of the war - Guynemer Fonck (the allied ace of aces with 75 victories), Heurteaux, Deullin, de Sevin, Bozon-Verdurez and many more. It also had several American Lafayette volunteers amongst its ranks, notably Frank Baylies, Edwin Parsons, Bert Hall and Charles Biddle. ~~~ Appendices list as complete a roster of GC12 pilots as can be found, lists of bases used, victories achieved and losses sustained. There are also more than 80 photographs of pilots and aircraft depicting men and machines of the Groupe, and side view drawings of aircraft and their markings by Greg Van Wyngarden." British import.
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French General Staff,
FRENCH TRENCH WARFARE, 1917-1918: A Reference Manual.
Battery Press reprint of the original 1917 French Army edition. Over 280 photos & drawings, 387 pages. "Originally published as a training manual for junior officers, this reference volume is a comprehensive review of French combat methods in the latter stages of World War 1. There are chapters on the principles of command, infantry training, weapons and support materiel, and trench tactics. It is oriented towards platoon and company operations. The many illustrations make it particularly valuable as a guide to how French troops fought on the Western Front during the Great War."
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Macintyre, Ben,
THE ENGLISHMAN'S DAUGHTER: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001). Photographs, notes, bibliography, index, 254 pages. "In the first terrifying days of World War I, a handful of British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the Western Front. Unable to rejoin their units, which were retreating under the German onslaught, they were forced to hide in the French countryside. The Englishman's Daughter is the extraordinary true story of these men, their rescuers, and the bittersweet love affair that sprang up between an enchanting French villager and a fugitive English soldier. This romance flourished under the very eyes of German occupiers, resulted in the birth of a child, and eventually tore a community apart."
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Weintraub, Stanley,
SILENT NIGHT: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.
The Free Press, 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket, in new condition except for black
remainder mark on bottom edge of book. Drawings, engravings, photographs, 19-page essay on Sources, index, 206 pages. "It was one of history's most powerful - yet forgotten - Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It began when German soldiers lit candles on small Christmas trees, and British, French, Belgian and German troops serenaded each other on Christmas Eve. Soon they were gathering and burying the dead, in an age-old custom of truces. But as the power of Christmas grew among them, they broke bread, exchanged addresses and letters and expressed deep admiration for one another. When angry superiors ordered them to recommence the shooting, many men aimed harmlessly high overhead. Silent Night, by renowned military historian Stanley Weintraub, magically restores the 1914 Christmas Truce to history."
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