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100 1 $aSmith, Leonard V.,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93064866
245 10 $aBetween mutiny and obedience :$bthe case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I /$cLeonard V. Smith.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9403
300 $axvii, 274 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aBased on the author's thesis (doctoral--Columbia University).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-268) and index.
505 0 $aI. Introduction: The Theory of War, Obedience, and Military Authority -- II. The Army and the Republic in Provincial France: Military Life in Rouen before August 1914 -- III. The Battles of August-September 1914: The Pieces of Defeat, Victory, and Proportionality -- IV. The New 5[superscript e] DI and the New War: The Social World of Trench Warfare -- V. From Percee to Grignotage: The 1915 Offensives at Neuville-St. Vaast -- VI. The Crisis in Pitched Battle: Verdun, 1916 -- VII. The Crisis in Trench Warfare: Les Eparges -- VIII. The Implicit Struggle Becomes Explicit: The Mutinies of 1917 -- IX. The Grandeur and Miseries of Proportionality: June 1917-November 1918 -- X. Conclusion.
520 $aLiterary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. Leonard Smith, 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, Smith analyzes the experience of the French Fifth Infantry Division in both pitched battle and trench warfare.
520 8 $aThe 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
520 8 $a. Smith pays particular attention to the pivotal role of noncommissioned 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.
520 8 $aBy altering the parameters of command authority in accordance with their own perceived interests, soldiers and commanders negotiated a behavioral space between mutiny and obedience.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xRegimental histories$zFrance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113846
610 10 $aFrance.$bArmée.$bDivision d'infanterie, 5$xHistory.
650 0 $aMilitary discipline$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMutiny$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century.
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