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| ISBN: | 9780195363128
0195363124
9786610605378
6610605378
0195059379
9780195059373
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289).
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| Summary: | Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social f.
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| Other form: | Print version: Forrest, Alan I. Déserteurs et insoumis sous la Révolution et l'Empire. English. Conscripts and deserters. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989
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