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...Centurions thus appears in an intellectually - charged context; and reading it one is constantly reminded of this fact. For M. Larteguy assumes a great deal of the reader, and will hardly make sense unless one bears in mind the peculiar psychological burden of the Army for a certain group of Frenchmen. (Especially since I'm not sure it makes too much sense no matter what's borne in mind...
...CENTURIONS (487 pp.)-Jean Larteguy-Dutton...
...officers, he stood aloof from the army coup of last May, earned the further dislike of the balcony generals and colonels of Algiers by scornfully condemning their coup ("The army, instead of waging war, is indulging in politics"). And early this month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French army," the outspoken colonel gave him an earful. Dismissing General Raoul Salan, commander of French forces in Algeria, with the mocking nickname "Papa" Salan, old Noncom Bigeard hammered away at his favorite...