Title : The Honor of War - The Truths of an Algerian Officer - Déodat Puy-Montbrun - book

Summary :

Everyone bears the weight of their actions. Déodat Puy-Montbrun doesn't claim to be a historian. He asks questions. Until now, he had remained silent about the war in Algeria. The way history is being written today has made him decide to speak out.
Heir to a large feudal house in Languedoc, a Protestant among Catholics, orphaned by the First World War, and enlisted at barely twenty years old in the Second World War, Déodat Puy-Montbrun participated in all the battles of the French army, from the Resistance to Algeria, including Indochina and the special services. Although a Free Frenchman, distinguished by twenty-seven war titles including nineteen citations, he paid dearly, at the dawn of the Fifth Republic, for his sense of military honor.
Determined to break with contemporary simplifications and amalgamations, Déodat Puy-Montbrun, wounded six times, insists on respecting the truth. Especially when addressing subjects as delicate as torture. He bears witness today for a generation that has no reason to be ashamed of the way it served its country.

The section devoted to Algeria was reviewed by military historian Jean-Paul Pace.

• EAN : 9782226132086
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