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Fighting for Napoleon: French Soldiers' Letters 1799-1815 - Couverture rigide

Wilkin, Bernard

 
9781473833739: Fighting for Napoleon: French Soldiers' Letters 1799-1815
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ISBN 10 : 1473833736 ISBN 13 : 9781473833739
Editeur : Pen & Sword Military, 2016

Synopsis

The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often seen from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers' memoirs. It is rarely seen from the perspective of the lowest ranks of the army, and the experience of the ordinary soldiers is less well known and is often misunderstood. That is why this account, based on more than 1,600 letters written by French soldiers of the Napoleonic armies, is of such value. It adds to the existing literature by exploring every aspect of the life of a French soldier during the period 1799-1815. The book will be fascinating and informative reading for military and cultural historians, but it will also appeal to anyone who is interested in the war experience of common soldiers. It offers the English-speaking audience a French view of a conflict which is too often limited to the traditional memoirs of Captain Coignet, Colonel Marbot or Sergeant Bourgogne.'This work takes us into the daily life of the Grande Armee, with its suffering and the atrocities committed...Unlike diaries and memoirs written by officers, they captured the real experience of the common soldier...The authors have compiled a very valuable work. ' La Libre Belgique

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À propos de l'auteur

Bernard Wilkin is a Belgian historian working at the University of Sheffield, where he specialises in the history of the French army and the French people at war, from Napoleon to the end of the Third Republic. He has published on various subjects such as propaganda in France during the two world wars, morale in the French army and on the home front during the Great War. Rene Wilkin, the father of Bernard, studied and taught history in the city of Liege where he was born. He is now retired but continues to work on Napoleonic history from a French perspective.

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Military
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1473833736
ISBN 13 
9781473833739
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
184
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Personne responsable
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