Название: The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871-1914Автор: Douglas Porch
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1981
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 156
Размер: 86,86 Мб
Язык: английский
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...