Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance
Le Bataillon de Chartreuse - From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance

The Chartreuse Battalion – From the Banks of the Guiers to Lake Constance

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What better way to evoke the Resistance than by tracing its evolution in a sector of Savoy.

 

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It gave rise to the creation of the Chartreuse Battalion, which became one of its finest units. Its men did not hesitate to carry the fight all the way to Germany, within the 9th Colonial Infantry Division of General de Lattre's 1st Army. Its casualties speak to the vigour of its commitment: one hundred dead and 550 wounded from a strength of one thousand men. It is time to rescue its history from oblivion.

The author: 

Philibert de Loisy holds degrees from Sciences-Po and the ICG. Trilingual and passionate about history, he is the author of articles in specialist journals and of numerous works, including La première Résistance: le camouflage des armes; Le réseau CDM and 1944, les FFI deviennent soldats.

CONTENTS:

I – The Beginnings of Military Resistance

II – The Maquis of 1944 

III – The Liberation of Grenoble and Bourgoin

IV – The Liberation of Lyon 

V – Amalgamation into the 1st Army 

VI – The Doubs, Alsace and Germany 

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Author 1
Philibert de Loisy
Publication date
June 20, 2018
Pages
64
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
HISTORY & COLLECTIONS

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