| 词条 | The Centurions (Lartéguy novel) |
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| name = The Centurions | title_orig = Les centurions | translator = Xan Fielding | image = TheCenturions cover.jpg | caption = | author = Jean Lartéguy | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = French, English | series = | genre = | publisher = | release_date = 1960 | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = La tragédie du Maroc interdit | followed_by = Les prétoriens }} 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.[1] It was translated from the original French into English by Xan Fielding. The novel included the first use of the so-called "ticking time bomb" scenario.[2] It won the 1960 Prix Ève Delacroix.[3] In 1966, The Centurions was adapted into a motion picture, Lost Command, that starred Anthony Quinn. Characters
ReceptionThe Centurions was highly successful in France at the time of its writing and sold over 420,000 copies. Indochina expert Bernard Fall called it "one of France's greatest bestsellers since World War II."[13] In 1972, the American journal The French Review stated that Lartéguy "almost overnight became something of a household" name in France after its publication, and that during the 1960s, he was one of the most widely read authors in the nation. It went on to say that Larteguy, beginning with The Centurions, was partly responsible for a revival of novel reading in France where, at the time according to statistics cited from Le Figaro Littéraire, 38% of adults had never read a book.[6]As American involvement in the Vietnam War increased, it was studied by American officers and Special Forces soldiers. The book regained currency with the onset of the Global War on Terrorism and the insurgency phase of the Iraq War. Since then, it has often been quoted or analyzed in works on counter-insurgency. Some individuals who have either publicly praised The Centurions or quoted it in their own work include:
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References1. ^Gal Perl Finkel, How to win a modern war, The Jerusalem Post, September 07, 2016. 2. ^Jane Mayer, Whatever it takes, The New Yorker, February 19, 2007. 3. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBpdAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Prix+Ève+Delacroix%22 |title=The Annual register of world events, Volume 202 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. |author=Edmund Burke |year=1961 |page=461 |accessdate=April 29, 2018 |quote=Other prizes award to French writers in 1960 included the following: .. the prix Eve-Delacroix to Jean Lartéguy for Les Centurions}} 4. ^1 2 3 The Lost Command, viaLibri, retrieved March 30, 2009. 5. ^1 2 3 Jean Lartéguy, The Face of War: Reflections on Men and Combat, 1979, Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company, {{ISBN|0-672-52350-7}}. 6. ^[https://www.jstor.org/pss/388499 Jean Lartéguy: A Popular Phenomenon], The French Review, vol. XLV, no. 6, May, 1972. 7. ^1 Roger Trinquier, Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112132017/http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/trinquier/trinquier.asp |date=2008-01-12 }}, 1961, Pall Mall Press. 8. ^1 2 3 David Rieff, The Cowboy Culture, The New Republic, October 6, 2005. 9. ^Robert D. Kaplan, [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/man-versus-afghanistan/7983 Man Versus Afghanistan], The Atlantic, April 2010. 10. ^Ralph Peters, Dream warriors: Our enemies fight for fantasies, not freedom, Armed Forces Journal, May 2007. 11. ^1 2 3 Robert D. Kaplan, [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200708u/kaplan-vietnam/3 Rereading Vietnam], The Atlantic, August 24, 2007. 12. ^David Fivecoat and Aaron Schwengler, Revisiting modern warfare: the 3rd HBCT, 3rd Id's experience in Mada'in Qada, Iraq, Infantry Magazine, United States Army Infantry School, July 1, 2008. Further reading
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