If I tell you "World War I", you immediately think of poilus wading in muddy trenches, crushed by shells, Verdun, Tannenberg, broken faces, in short, everything that happened between 1914 and 1918 in Europe and in the colonies to end up with the disastrous toll of 18 million dead. And yet, it is not this war that I am going to talk to you about today but another one, older, much less known but which probably is the real first world war in the sense that the fights took place all over the world, involving all kinds of peoples and which had very important consequences for the following centuries.
Come on, let's go back 250 years to the 18th century, when the king of France is called Louis XV.
📝 Writing by Stéphane Genêt.
🎞 Editing by Dead Will
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➤➤➤ Read more:
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- DZIEMBOWSKI (Edmond), The Seven Years' War, Paris, Tempus, 2018, 800 p. (12 €)
- The translation of an English reference work:
DULL (Jonathan R.), The Seven Years' War: naval, political and diplomatic history, Bécherel, Les Perséides, 2009, 536 p. (35 €)
- If you like spy stories and want to find out what it was like at that time, you can read :
GENET (Stéphane), Les espions des Lumières, Paris, Nouveau Monde, 2013, 511 p. (26 €)
- For New France, there is in particular:
VEYSSIÈRE (Laurent) and FONCK (Bertrand), La guerre de Sept ans en Nouvelle France, Montreal, Septentrion, 2016, 400 p. (23,92 €)
- For maps: [ Ссылка ]...
🎬 On film:
- "The Last of the Mohicans" with Daniel Day-Lewis (about the fighting in North America with a pro-English perspective) (1992)
- "Barry Lyndon" by Stanley Kubrick (1975) with the beginning of the film taking place during the Seven Years War with beautiful battle reenactments.
