The International Journal of African Historical Studies, May 1st, 2005
Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire. By Barnett Singer and John Langdon. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 483, 7 b/w illustrations, 5 maps. $45.00.
No course in modern French history should be without this book, and it would be an apt new title for the Military Book club. Barnett Singer and John Langdon, both seasoned writers of French social and military history, have produced a lively volume of revisionist history. For decades now Bugeaud, Faidherbe, Gallieni, Joffre, Lyautey, and Bigeard have been getting a bad rap as hard-headed, hard-he...
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