The French Art of War
Author | : Alexis Jenni |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780857897558 |
ISBN-13 | : 0857897551 |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Download or read book The French Art of War written by Alexis Jenni and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a veteran of the great colonial wars of Indochina, Vietnam and Algeria, a commander who had led his soldiers across the globe, a man with the blood of others up to his elbows. He said he would teach me to paint; he must have been the only painter in the French Forces, but out there no one cares about such things. I cared, though. In return, he wanted me to write his life story. And so he talked, and I wrote, and through him I witnessed the rivers of blood that cut channels through France, I saw the deaths that were as numberless as they were senseless and I began finally to understand the French art of war.