Before becoming one of the world's most renowned military theorists, General André Beaufre experienced the dramatic events of 1940 as a young officer. The four texts collected here, presented and annotated by his biographer, General Hervé Pierre, constitute a unique and unpublished testimony to the darkest hours of French history, from the first concessions to Adolf Hitler to the turning point in 1942. Spontaneous and influenced by current events, they are more marked by their time than the later texts that General Beaufre published more than twenty years later. A collection of personal reflections, they form the living raw material from which the strategist later drew his historical narratives and from which the main lines of his strategic model gradually emerged. As the root of Introduction à la stratégie, this Beaufre thus offers the key to understanding the general's most important work and a first-rate testimony to the defeat of 1940.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Beaufre, André
Title
Ècrits de combats 1939-1942
Details
French text, paperback. 403 pages.
State
new
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