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Henri Mathias Berthelot: Soldier of France, Defender of Romania

Henri Mathias Berthelot: Soldier of France, Defender of Romania

Torrey, Glenn

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Eastern European HistoryFrench HistoryWorld War I

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ISBN10: 9739432158
ISBN13: 9789739432153
Publisher: Center for Romanian Studies
Published: May 8 2001
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
At the beginning of the First World War, Henri Mathias Berthelot was recognized as one of France\u2019s most brilliant young generals. His sharp intelligence, prodigious organizational talents, and verbal skills had made him the trusted assistant to a succession of French chiefs of staff. While, unfortunately, Berthelot\u2019s military career in France has not received the attention it deserves, his service in Romania as head of two French military missions (October 1916-March 1918) and (October 1918-May 1919) made him a national hero in that country. Berthelot\u2019s indomitable optimism and will to resist energized the Romanian political and military leadership: the Romanian army was rebuilt, a new Austro-German assault brilliantly repulsed in 1917, and the consequences of the Russian Revolution for Romania blunted. At the end of the war, when Allied leaders vacillated over allowing the Romanians to occupy territory promised in the Treaty of Alliance of 1916, Berthelot encouraged them to act on their own. This study by Glenn E. Torrey, the leading American specialist in Romania during World War I, is based on the private, unpublished \u201cSourvenirs, \u201d papers, and correspondence of the General.

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