The end of the great military leader? ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ French army officers in the First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19064840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emmanuel Saint-Fuscien (LIER-FYT, EHESS France, Paris, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-73 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | First World War Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1947-5020 • E-ISSN: 1947-5039 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19475020.2021.1873163 |
| OpenAlex | W3124345995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
First, what happened on the frontlines of this war to the notion of the ‘great man’ or great military leader in the sense used in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dictionaries and in military literature all the way to the early twentieth? Second, if, as it seems, the violence and duration of the fighting in this war dissolved the notion of greatness in the sense of ‘a high level of attained dignity,’ what did it mean to be a good or bad French army officer from 1914 to 1918, during what was the institution’s longest experience of war
Ancient history · Cadet · Dignity · First world war · Greatness · Institution · Officer · Political science · Spanish Civil War · European Political History Analysis · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |