Andrew Uffindell, Michael Goya

Flesh and Steel During the Great War (eBook, ePUB)

The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The noted military historian presents an illuminating study of trench warfare during WWI-and how it influenced the French Army's evolution. Michel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is a major contribution to our understanding of the French Army's experience on the Western Front, and how that experience impacted the future of its military theory and practice. Goya explores the way in which the senior commanders and ordinary soldiers responded to the extraordinary challenges posed by the mass industrial warfare of the early twentieth century. In 1914 the French army went to war with a flawed doctrine, brightly-colored uniforms and a dire shortage of modern, heavy artillery. How then, over four years of relentless, attritional warfare, did it become the great, industrialized army that emerged victorious in 1918? To show how this change occurred, the author examines the pre-war ethos and organization of the army. He describes in telling detail how, through a process of analysis and innovation, the French army underwent the deepest and fastest transformation in its history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473886988
• Artikelnr.: 54676121

Autorenporträt

Michel Goya, a former colonel in the French army, teaches military history at the world-renowned Sciences Po university in Paris and is the author of a series of ground-breaking studies of modern warfare including Res militaris: de l'emploi des forces armes au XXIe sicle, Irak: Les armes du chaos and La chair et l'acier: l'invention de la guerre moderne.