Petain - Verdun to Vichy

Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Bruce is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University where he specializes in European military history with a particular emphasis on World War I, World War II, and the Napoleonic Wars. He is the author of A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War, which won the Tomlinson Prize from the Western Front Association for the best book on World War I. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas. Klappentext Analyzes the military career of one of the greatest, yet controversial, French military commanders of the twentieth century Zusammenfassung Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B Bruce, Robert B. Bruce
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9781574887570
• ISBN: 978-1-57488-757-0
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Potomac's Military Profiles (P; Military Profiles; Potomac's Military Profiles (P
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration