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Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies: Military Service in France and Germany, 1789-1830

Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies: Military Service in France and Germany, 1789-1830

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Series: War, History and Politics

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138873462
ISBN13: 9781138873469
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 10 2015
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the creation of 'national armies' through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period.

The French Revolution tried to establish military and political structures in which the armed forces and society would merge. In order to ensure that the army would never become a means of oppression against the people, the whole population should thus 'be' the army. Defeated by the enormous military potential that these new political settings had unchained in France, Prussia adapted the French innovations to its own needs, thus laying the basis for its contributions to the victories of the coalition troops in 1813-15.

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