MEMOIRS OF THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE GREAT WAR
MEMOIRS OF THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE GREAT WAR
MEMOIRS OF THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE GREAT WAR
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MEMOIRS OF THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE GREAT WAR

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A graduate of the École Polytechnique and an artillery officer, Charles Dupont was assigned to the Intelligence Service in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair. He carried out several secret missions in Germany before taking command of the 2nd Bureau (Intelligence) of the Army General Staff in 1913.

 

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Appointed head of the 2nd Bureau of the Grand Headquarters in August 1914, he remained in post until 1917, living through the great military shocks on the Western Front: the Marne (1914), Verdun (1916) and the Chemin des Dames (1917).

In late 1918, Foch appointed him to organise the repatriation of prisoners of war held in Germany. It was in a Berlin in the grip of complete chaos that he carried out his mission, before taking command of a military mission in Warsaw (1922). There he faced a turbulent period in Polish history and did not return to France until 1926, the year in which he completed the drafting of his Memoirs.

A visionary, Dupont denounces in these pages the rising dangers in Germany, foreseeing the Anschluss and even the Danzig crisis that would lead to the Second World War. This document, previously unpublished, constitutes an exceptional testimony on French intelligence before and during the Great War, but also on the personalities of the great military commanders — Joffre, Nivelle and Pétain — and their relations with the political circles of the time. 296 pages

Author 1
Olivier Lahaie
Publication date
December 11, 2014
Pages
300
Language
French
Publisher
HISTORY & COLLECTIONS

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