Between Mutiny and Obedience
The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I
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1994
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-03304-4 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-03304-4 (ISBN)
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This case study of wartime military culture analyzes the experiences of the French Fifth Infantry Division in both pitched battle and trench warfare in order to highlight the fine dividing line between compliance and outright resistance that existed between the soldiers and their commanders.
Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. This study, however, argues that a complex dialogue of resistance and negotiation existed between French soldiers and their own commanders. In this case study of wartime military culture, the author analyzes the experience of the French Fifth Infantry Division in both pitched battle and trench warfare. The Division established a distinguished fighting record from 1914 to 1916, yet proved in 1917 the most mutinous division in the entire French Army, only to regain its elite reputation in 1918. Drawing on sources from ordinary soldiers to well-known Commanders such as General Charles Mangin, the author explains how the mutinies of 1917 became an explicit manifestation of an implicit struggle that took place within the French Army over the whole course of the war. Smith pays particular attention to the pivotal role of non-commissioned and junior officers, who both exercised command authority and shared the physical perils of men in the lower ranks.
He shows that "soldiers", broadly defined, learned to determine rules of how they would and would not fight the war, and imposed these rules on the command structure itself. By altering the parameters of command authority in accordance with their own perceived interests, soldiers and commanders negotiated a behavioural space between mutiny and obedience.
Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. This study, however, argues that a complex dialogue of resistance and negotiation existed between French soldiers and their own commanders. In this case study of wartime military culture, the author analyzes the experience of the French Fifth Infantry Division in both pitched battle and trench warfare. The Division established a distinguished fighting record from 1914 to 1916, yet proved in 1917 the most mutinous division in the entire French Army, only to regain its elite reputation in 1918. Drawing on sources from ordinary soldiers to well-known Commanders such as General Charles Mangin, the author explains how the mutinies of 1917 became an explicit manifestation of an implicit struggle that took place within the French Army over the whole course of the war. Smith pays particular attention to the pivotal role of non-commissioned and junior officers, who both exercised command authority and shared the physical perils of men in the lower ranks.
He shows that "soldiers", broadly defined, learned to determine rules of how they would and would not fight the war, and imposed these rules on the command structure itself. By altering the parameters of command authority in accordance with their own perceived interests, soldiers and commanders negotiated a behavioural space between mutiny and obedience.
| Reihe/Serie | Princeton Legacy Library |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 Maps |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 197 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-03304-8 / 0691033048 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-03304-4 / 9780691033044 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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