| Author | : Alexis Jenni |
| File Size | : 47,6 Mb |
| Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 27 April 2017 |
| ISBN | : 9780857897558 |
| Pages | : 685 pages |
The French Art of War by Alexis Jenni Book PDF Summary
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.