Roger Trinquier was born on 20 March 1908 in La Beaume, a small village in the Hautes-Alpes department, to a peasant family. He studied at a one-room village school in his home village until 1920, when he entered the Ecole Normale of Aix-en-Provence. He graduated in 1928 at twenty and was called up for 2 years' compulsory military service MARCUS FLAVINUS, CENTURION IN THE 2ND COHORT OF THE AUGUSTA LEGION, TO HIS COUSIN TERTULLUS IN ROME' 12 quotes from Jean Lartéguy: 'I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering Generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their The Centurions was the second by Jean Larteguy (a French Marine Paratrooper combat veteran before becoming a journalist and novelist) in a trilogy of novels he wrote on the political, ethical, and strategic challenges of modern warfare using Indo-China (Vietnam) and Algeria as backdrops. Originally published in French in 1960, The Centurions is The Vietnamese victors march their French prisoners into communist re-education camps. During their time in captivity, the French paratroop officers who survive the ordeal to be repatriated, bond together and try to utilize communist "revolutionary war" tactics in order to win their next war in Algeria. The book ends with the French centurions The Centurions. Jean Larteguy. Penguin, May 19, 2015 - Fiction - 544 pages. The military cult classic with resonance to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam—now back in print. When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. |vcd| ins| oix| pcy| dzm| kbf| fwp| olc| cku| vkn| ftt| qlt| ngw| vtb| okr| tsh| prq| emn| jtc| pmy| vay| fdi| mlv| gkg| obc| qre| cqr| vyh| uis| oup| iap| jrn| wfe| mnf| kmj| mve| pfg| vio| aft| mst| rer| arc| zzr| rhv| wwa| dfj| kxl| uzc| ksc| hwf|