Philippe Masson for Editions Perrin The French Army has so bestrode the military history of Europe that its more recent history is perhaps neglected over here. So much is it neglected that I am obliged to read this mighty tome in French. It is a story full of events. The high-hopes and savage reality of the Great War, the War won, but the Peace lost, the sudden collapse in 1940, the divided loyalties of the Vichy era, the return to Europe, the attempts at re-establishing French imperium in Indochina and Algeria, and finally the reduced army in the nuclear period. One would have wished for more maps, but this is not a tale of detail, but a general history of the army rather than its campaigns. Old Duffer's Book Corner Book Reviews The Punic Wars The Northern Wars 1558-1721 1688: A Global History Richelieu And Olivares Warfare At Sea 1500-1650 Louis XIV The Renaissance At War The Great War and Modern Memory Battles of the Greek And Roman Worlds Histoire Militaire des Guerres Puniques Dictionnaire des Maréchaux de France The War The Infantry Knew 1914-1919 The Great War The Byzantine Wars The French Civil Wars The Somme The Myth of the Great War The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks Histoire de l'armée française de 1914 à nos jours To The Last Man: Spring 1918 Flodden 1513 Verdun 1916 The Mediterranean In The Ancient World The National Army Museum Book Of The Boer War La Bataille d'Abbeville Soldier Sahibs The Celtic Empire The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918 War And The World: Military Power And The Fate of Continents Back to Perfidious Albion #103 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com