The Centurions Novel

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The Centurions is the middle book of Lartéguy's masterful trilogy about the French struggle to keep Vietnam and Algeria in the empire. That struggle is doomed ...
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Offering a military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency, ...
Centurions (Paperback). Offering a military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the...

30 aug 2023 · Jean Larteguy's The Centurions is a tale of captive French paratroopers in Indochina who later to go on to ascend to the zenith of their profession in Algeria ...
One of the novels that most heavily influenced the US military’s approach to its post-9/11 wars did not focus on the Middle East. It did not feature American service members. […]

There are powerful, well-drawn characters in this classic novel. We first meet them in an Indochina prison camp in 1954, immediately after the fall of Dien Bien ...
Jean Larteguy (the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, 1920-2011) spent time in prison in Spain in 1942, the year I was born. He then joined the Free French Forces and served seven years in North Africa and Korea. In 1955, he received the Albert Landres Prize for his Indochina reporting. He is best known for his Algerian War Trilogy.

When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments.
A cult military classic with resonance to the wars in Vietname and Iraq, and studied by David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, and the Green Berets. Long out-of-print, this is new to Penguin Classics with a foreword by military and foreign policy expert Robert D. Kaplan.

27 jan 2011 · A copy of Jean Larteguy's The Centurions, an out-of-print French novel about paratroopers in Indochina and Algeria, can go for more than ...
A copy of Jean Larteguy's The Centurions, an out-of-print French novel about paratroopers in Indochina and Algeria, can go for more than $1,700 on...
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Kaplan, this important wartime novel will again spark debate about controversial tactics in hot spots around the world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has ...
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London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1961. First English language edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed copy of the first English-language ...
London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1961. First English language edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed copy of the first English-language edition, both the jacket and volume in very good condition. The red and black cloth binding remains clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners, vivid spine gilt, and no appreciable wear apart from minor wrinkling to the spine ends. A forward lean is the only defect noted.

The military cult classic with resonance to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam—now back in print When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were ...
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This is a classic novel that became a cult favorite among American soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Originally published in French in ...
This is a classic novel that became a cult favorite among American soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Originally published in French in 1960, it was for years hard to find in its English edition (translated by the World War II British commando Xan Fielding); a used copy would go for $800 on Amazon.

31 dec 2021 · Jean Lartéguy's 1960 novel about French soldiers in Vietnam and then in Algeria, dealing with the travails that come from fighting the wars of a dying empire.
Jean Lartéguy’s classic novel about the independence wars in Algeria and Vietnam.

It was published in 1960 and translated from the original French into English by Xan Fielding. The novel included the first use of the so-called "ticking time ...
The Centurions (French title: Les Centurions) is a novel written by French journalist and former soldier Jean Lartéguy following a French airborne battalion through the First Indochina War, Algerian War, and Suez Crisis. It was published in 1960 and translated from the original French into English by Xan Fielding. The novel included the first use of the so-called "ticking time bomb" scenario. It won the 1960 Prix Ève Delacroix. In 1966, The Centurions was adapted into a motion picture, Lost Command, that starred Anthony Quinn.

A cult military classic with resonance to the wars in Vietname and Iraq, and studied by David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, and the Green Berets.
A cult military classic with resonance to the wars in Vietname and Iraq, and studied by David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, and the Green Berets. Long out-of-print, this is new to Penguin Classics with a foreword by military and foreign policy expert Robert D. Kaplan.