Anthony Clayton
Autor de Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18
Sobre El Autor
Anthony Clayton was Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst from 1965-94.
Obras de Anthony Clayton
Battlefield Rations: The Food Given to the British Soldier For Marching and Fighting 1900-2011 (2013) 9 copias
The killing fields of Kenya, 1952-1960 : British military operations against the Mau Mau (2006) 3 copias
Tourism in a transforming world economy and the impacts of the brave new world : how might developing nations achieve… (2014) 1 copia
The end of empire : the experience of Britain and France and the Soviet Union/Russia compared (1996) 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Educación
- University of St Andrews (Modern and Medieval History)
University of Paris - Ocupaciones
- senior lecturer
intelligence corps officer - Organizaciones
- Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (1965-1994)
Territorial Army - Premios y honores
- Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palms Academiques (1988)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 23
- Miembros
- 250
- Popularidad
- #91,401
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 54
- Idiomas
- 1
All of this serves as an informative summary of the French military experience in the First World War, one that is enjoyably written and generally accessible for the interested reader. Yet the book is not without its flaws. Foremost is its predominant focus on the French military experience in northeastern France. While understandable, Clayton takes this too far by reducing his examination of the army’s involvement on other fronts to a single chapter and generally ignoring the broader context of French politics and society. Civilians are typically addressed only in terms of their direct interactions with the troops, while the heavily politicized world in which the French high command operated is treated often as background noise. Such a narrow approach deprives his analysis of critical elements necessary for understanding the forces at work in the French army during this period.
Also problematic is Clayton’s handling of non-European troops fighting in the French ranks. While acknowledging the presence of thousands of North African, Senegalese, and Indochinese soldiers, the author never gives them the attention he grants to conscripts from France itself, often offering little more than stereotyping claims of questionable veracity. These beg for a reference to Clayton’s source, yet there are no footnotes or endnotes, only a bibliography of the sources used. Such an omission minimizes the utility of the book, one that in the end leaves it to serve as a useful survey of the French army in the First World War and little more.… (más)