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Conscripts and Deserters - The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,525

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Conscripts and Deserters - The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire (Hardcover): Alan Forrest

Conscripts and Deserters - The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire (Hardcover)

Alan Forrest

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Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continuously at war, recruiting, in the process, some two to three million Frenchmen - a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society, on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.

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Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1990
First published:	November 1989
Authors:	Alan Forrest (Senior Lecturer in French History)
Dimensions:	244 x 163 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505937-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-19-505937-9
Barcode:	9780195059373