FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles

FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles

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Alamo, Sidi-Brahim, Camerone, Bazeilles, Fort de Vaux, the Alcázar of Toledo, Westerplatte, Wizna, Saumur, Bir Hakeim, Les Glières, Iwo Jima, Diên Biên Phu.

What do Alamo, Camerone, Iwo Jima, and Bir Hakeim have in common? The determination of the defenders who, without faltering, face an adversary vastly superior in numbers and materiel. Surrounded and assailed, they know the outcome can only be against them, and yet they put up a fierce resistance that speaks to a conception of honour belonging only to the finest soldiers.

Through thirteen battles, the author demonstrates the emblematic value of sacrificial combat, of the "heroic defeat." The battles described in this work share an exceptionally exemplary quality that immortalises them, inscribing them definitively not only in military history, but in History itself. The example of these fighters who, faced with surrender, choose a heroic death, galvanises subsequent generations and contributes to the writing of the national narrative.

 

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Author 1
Michel Vial
Publication date
April 2023
Pages
224
Cover
Paperback
Format
15x24
Language
French
Publisher
HISTORY & COLLECTIONS
EAN
9791038013377

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