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The March to the Marne - The French Army 1871-1914 (Paperback, Revised)
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The March to the Marne - The French Army 1871-1914 (Paperback, Revised)
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The relationship between the French army and the regime provides
one of the central themes in the history of the Third Republic.
From its foundation in 1870, the republic sought to integrate the
army of Louis-Napoleon into a left-leaning, democratic political
system. This experiment failed, historians have argued, because the
social origins, political attitudes and professional values of the
officer corps sabotaged cooperation with the republic. The nation
paid a bloody price for this failure on the battlefields of the
Great War. Dr Porch's book challenges many standard assumptions
about the place of the army in French political life between 1871
and 1914. The events of the 'Dreyfus years' are examined from the
army's standpoint. Dr Porch examines the impact of the Dreyfus
affair on the crucial tactical and armaments debates of the
immediate pre-war years, tracing the origins of the costly 'spirit
of the offensive' while providing the answer to the French army's
near disastrous failure to the development of the colonial army and
its place within the military structure is also assessed for the
first time.
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