The French Art of War

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.

Title - The French Art of War

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Author - Alexis Jenni

ISBN 13 - 9780857897534

Imprint - Atlantic Books

Publisher - Atlantic Books

Date Published - 27/04/2017

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 163 x 235 x 45mm

Weight - 825 g

Languages - English