| The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. Leonard V. Smith is Frederick B. Artz Professor of History at Oberlin College. He is the author of Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I , coauthor of France and the Great War, 1914-1918 , and coeditor of France at War: Vichy and the Historians . |