Morto Jean Larteguy

[Nicolas Eymerich]

Sul Corsera odierno è apparsa la notizia della morte di Jean Larteguy. Non ho mai avuto modo di leggere i suoi libri; so che alcuni di essi, in particolar modo quelli dedicati alla guerra d'Algeria, rappresentarono dei veri e propri livres de chevet per il neofascismo degli anni 60. Cosa ne pensate di questo autore che, a quanto pare, ha talmente suggestionato il generale Petraeus da indurlo a ristamparne le opere?

[Leone]

Non ho mai letto il libro in questione.
Lo consigliate? E' reperibile?

[amerigodumini]

Non ho mai letto il libro in questione.
Lo consigliate? E' reperibile?

I libri.
Sono vari.

Jean Larteguy, scrittore, giornalista ed ex soldato francese, è scomparso, secondo Libération, presso l' Hotel des Invalides a Parigi, dove viveva da cinque anni. Nato a Maisons-Alfort (Val de Marne) il 5 settembre 1920, il suo vero nome era Jean Pierre Lucien Osty.Ex soldato, si era arruolato nell'esercito nel 1939 ed era stato più volte decorato. Come giornalista era stato corrispondente di guerra in America Latina, in Algeria e in Vietnam, durante la rivoluzione in Azerbaïdjan, in Palestina e durante il conflitto tra le due Coree, dove rimasto ferito durante un'attacco.
Autore di una cinquanta di opere, in particolare sui conflitti in Indocina, Corea e Algeria, Lartéguy era noto per aver scritto libri come 'Les centurions' (1963), 'Les prétoriens' (1964), 'Les mercenaires' (700.000 copie vendute), e 'Mourir pour Jérusalem'.
Il romanzo 'I centurioni' che narra della Guerra d'Indipendenza d'Algeria è stato portato sullo schermo, con Anthony Quinn, Claudia Cardinale ed Alain Delon con il titolo 'Lost Command', (Nè onore nè gloria) del 1966 e diretto da Mark Robson.
Best-seller da mezzo milione di copie in Francia, il libro, che racconta come calarsi nella mentalità del nemico per sconfiggerlo con le sue stesse armi, negli Stati Uniti all'inizio venne acquistato quasi esclusivamente da ufficiali dell'esercito Usa (un centinaio di copie).
A lungo introvabile in edizione inglese, venne ristampato per volere di David Petraeus, generale americano in Iraq e in Afghanistan.

JEAN LART

Jean LartéguyFrom Wikipedia

Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 – 23 February 2011)[1] was the nom de plume of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. He was born in 1920 in Aumont-Aubrac, Lozère and died in 2011 [2]. Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario in his 1960 novel Les centurions.[3]


Biography
Lartéguy was born into what he called "one of those families of poor mountain peasants whose names are found inscribed on war memorials, but not in history books." Both his father and uncle had served in the First World War. With his country conquered by the Germans, Lartéguy escaped from France into Spain in March 1942. He remained there for nine months and spent time in a Franquist jail before joining the Free French Forces as an officer in the 1st Commando Group (1er groupe de commandos). During the war, he fought in Italy; Vosges and Belfort, France; and Germany. He remained on active duty for seven years until becoming a captain in the reserves in order to enter the field of journalism. Lartéguy received numerous military awards, to include: Légion d'honneur, Croix de guerre 1939-1945, and the Croix de guerre T.O.E.

After his military service, Lartéguy worked as a war correspondent, particularly for the magazine Paris Match. He covered conflicts in Azerbaijan, Korea, Palestine, Indochina, Algeria, and Vietnam. In pursuit of a story, Lartéguy volunteered for the French Battalion and was wounded by an enemy hand grenade during the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. In Latin America, he reported on various revolutions and insurgencies, and in 1967 encountered Che Guevara shortly before his capture and execution. In the July 1967 issue of Paris Match, Lartéguy wrote a major article entitled "Les Guerilleros", where he wrote: "At a time when Cuban revolutionaries want to create Vietnam's all over the world, the Americans run the risk of finding their own Algeria in Latin America."

In 1955, he received the Albert Londres Prize for journalism.

Writing
His experiences as a soldier and war correspondent influenced his writing. Some of the most emphasized topics in his writing are decolonization, nationalism, the expansion of Communism, the state of post-war French society, and the unglamorous nature of war. Several of his book titles were translated into English, with the most successful being his Algerian War series: The Centurions and The Praetorians. The former was adapted into a major motion picture in 1966, entitled Lost Command and starred Anthony Quinn.

Also, with his novel The Centurions, Lartéguy is credited with being the first to envision the 'ticking time bomb' scenario, which has regained relevance in recent debates on the use of torture in a counter-terrorism role. His novels have been read by military professionals, to include General David Petraeus, in the new context of modern terrorism.

BibliographyLa ville étranglée (1955)
Les âmes errantes (1956)
La tragédie du Maroc interdit (1957)
Les dieux meurent en Algérie (1960)
Les baladins de la Margeride (1962)
Les mercenaires (1963) (Originally published as Du sang sur les collines, without success, reprinted with the new title after the success of Les centurions)
Les chimères noires (1963), translated into English as The Hounds of Hell
Guerre d'Algérie, two volumes
1.Les centurions (1963), translated into English as The Centurions, adapted into film as Lost Command
2.Les prétoriens (1964), translated into English as The Praetorians
Le mal jaune (1965), translated into English as Yellow Fever, (Reprint of two previously published titles: La ville étranglée and Les âmes errantes)
Un million de dollars le Viet (1965)
Sauveterre (1966), translated into English
Les guérilleros (1967)
Les chimères noires (1967)
Les tambours de bronze (1969), translated into English as The Bronze Drums
Ces voix qui nous viennent de la mer (1969)
Tout homme est une guerre civile, two volumes
1.Le prêtre astronome (1969)
2.Les libertadors (1970)
Lettre ouverte aux bonnes femmes (1972)
Les Rois mendiants (1975)
Enquête sur un crucifié (1976)
Tout l'or du diable (1976)
Les rois mendiants (1977)
Les naufragés du soleil, three volumes
1.Le gaur de la rivière noire (1978)
2.Le cheval de feu (1980)
3.Le baron céleste (1982)
Dieu, l'or et le sang (1980)
Le commandant du nord (1982)
Marco Polo espion de Venise (1984)
Soldats perdus et fous de Dieu, Indochine 1954-1955 (1986)
L'or de Baal (1987)
Tahiti (1988)
Le Roi noir, (1991)
Mourir pour Jérusalem (1995), (non-fiction)
References1.^ [1]
2.^ jean-larteguy-l-auteur-des-centurions-est-mort
3.^ Whatever it takes, The New Yorker, February 19, 2007.
Robert Kaplan, "Rereading Vietnam", The Atlantic, 24 August 2007.
Roger Trinquier, Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency, Combined Arms Research Library, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, January 1985.
David O'Connell, "Jean Lartéguy: A Popular Phenomenon", The French Review, Vol. XLV, No. 6, May 1972.
Ralph Peters, "Dream Warrior: Our Enemies Fight for Fantasies, not Freedom", Armed Forces Journal, May 2007.
External linksFNCV site fncv federation nationale combattants volontaires france association
English commentary on Lartéguy's books http://web.archive.org/web/200910270...eguy/books.htm

[Leone]

I libri.
Sono vari.

Jean Larteguy, scrittore, giornalista ed ex soldato francese, è scomparso, secondo Libération, presso l' Hotel des Invalides a Parigi, dove viveva da cinque anni. Nato a Maisons-Alfort (Val de Marne) il 5 settembre 1920, il suo vero nome era Jean Pierre Lucien Osty.Ex soldato, si era arruolato nell'esercito nel 1939 ed era stato più volte decorato. Come giornalista era stato corrispondente di guerra in America Latina, in Algeria e in Vietnam, durante la rivoluzione in Azerbaïdjan, in Palestina e durante il conflitto tra le due Coree, dove rimasto ferito durante un'attacco.
Autore di una cinquanta di opere, in particolare sui conflitti in Indocina, Corea e Algeria, Lartéguy era noto per aver scritto libri come 'Les centurions' (1963), 'Les prétoriens' (1964), 'Les mercenaires' (700.000 copie vendute), e 'Mourir pour Jérusalem'.
Il romanzo 'I centurioni' che narra della Guerra d'Indipendenza d'Algeria è stato portato sullo schermo, con Anthony Quinn, Claudia Cardinale ed Alain Delon con il titolo 'Lost Command', (Nè onore nè gloria) del 1966 e diretto da Mark Robson.
Best-seller da mezzo milione di copie in Francia, il libro, che racconta come calarsi nella mentalità del nemico per sconfiggerlo con le sue stesse armi, negli Stati Uniti all'inizio venne acquistato quasi esclusivamente da ufficiali dell'esercito Usa (un centinaio di copie).
A lungo introvabile in edizione inglese, venne ristampato per volere di David Petraeus, generale americano in Iraq e in Afghanistan.

JEAN LART

Jean LartéguyFrom Wikipedia

Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 – 23 February 2011)[1] was the nom de plume of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. He was born in 1920 in Aumont-Aubrac, Lozère and died in 2011 [2]. Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario in his 1960 novel Les centurions.[3]


Biography
Lartéguy was born into what he called "one of those families of poor mountain peasants whose names are found inscribed on war memorials, but not in history books." Both his father and uncle had served in the First World War. With his country conquered by the Germans, Lartéguy escaped from France into Spain in March 1942. He remained there for nine months and spent time in a Franquist jail before joining the Free French Forces as an officer in the 1st Commando Group (1er groupe de commandos). During the war, he fought in Italy; Vosges and Belfort, France; and Germany. He remained on active duty for seven years until becoming a captain in the reserves in order to enter the field of journalism. Lartéguy received numerous military awards, to include: Légion d'honneur, Croix de guerre 1939-1945, and the Croix de guerre T.O.E.

After his military service, Lartéguy worked as a war correspondent, particularly for the magazine Paris Match. He covered conflicts in Azerbaijan, Korea, Palestine, Indochina, Algeria, and Vietnam. In pursuit of a story, Lartéguy volunteered for the French Battalion and was wounded by an enemy hand grenade during the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. In Latin America, he reported on various revolutions and insurgencies, and in 1967 encountered Che Guevara shortly before his capture and execution. In the July 1967 issue of Paris Match, Lartéguy wrote a major article entitled "Les Guerilleros", where he wrote: "At a time when Cuban revolutionaries want to create Vietnam's all over the world, the Americans run the risk of finding their own Algeria in Latin America."

In 1955, he received the Albert Londres Prize for journalism.

Writing
His experiences as a soldier and war correspondent influenced his writing. Some of the most emphasized topics in his writing are decolonization, nationalism, the expansion of Communism, the state of post-war French society, and the unglamorous nature of war. Several of his book titles were translated into English, with the most successful being his Algerian War series: The Centurions and The Praetorians. The former was adapted into a major motion picture in 1966, entitled Lost Command and starred Anthony Quinn.

Also, with his novel The Centurions, Lartéguy is credited with being the first to envision the 'ticking time bomb' scenario, which has regained relevance in recent debates on the use of torture in a counter-terrorism role. His novels have been read by military professionals, to include General David Petraeus, in the new context of modern terrorism.

BibliographyLa ville étranglée (1955)
Les âmes errantes (1956)
La tragédie du Maroc interdit (1957)
Les dieux meurent en Algérie (1960)
Les baladins de la Margeride (1962)
Les mercenaires (1963) (Originally published as Du sang sur les collines, without success, reprinted with the new title after the success of Les centurions)
Les chimères noires (1963), translated into English as The Hounds of Hell
Guerre d'Algérie, two volumes
1.Les centurions (1963), translated into English as The Centurions, adapted into film as Lost Command
2.Les prétoriens (1964), translated into English as The Praetorians
Le mal jaune (1965), translated into English as Yellow Fever, (Reprint of two previously published titles: La ville étranglée and Les âmes errantes)
Un million de dollars le Viet (1965)
Sauveterre (1966), translated into English
Les guérilleros (1967)
Les chimères noires (1967)
Les tambours de bronze (1969), translated into English as The Bronze Drums
Ces voix qui nous viennent de la mer (1969)
Tout homme est une guerre civile, two volumes
1.Le prêtre astronome (1969)
2.Les libertadors (1970)
Lettre ouverte aux bonnes femmes (1972)
Les Rois mendiants (1975)
Enquête sur un crucifié (1976)
Tout l'or du diable (1976)
Les rois mendiants (1977)
Les naufragés du soleil, three volumes
1.Le gaur de la rivière noire (1978)
2.Le cheval de feu (1980)
3.Le baron céleste (1982)
Dieu, l'or et le sang (1980)
Le commandant du nord (1982)
Marco Polo espion de Venise (1984)
Soldats perdus et fous de Dieu, Indochine 1954-1955 (1986)
L'or de Baal (1987)
Tahiti (1988)
Le Roi noir, (1991)
Mourir pour Jérusalem (1995), (non-fiction)
References1.^ [1]
2.^ jean-larteguy-l-auteur-des-centurions-est-mort
3.^ Whatever it takes, The New Yorker, February 19, 2007.
Robert Kaplan, "Rereading Vietnam", The Atlantic, 24 August 2007.
Roger Trinquier, Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency, Combined Arms Research Library, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, January 1985.
David O'Connell, "Jean Lartéguy: A Popular Phenomenon", The French Review, Vol. XLV, No. 6, May 1972.
Ralph Peters, "Dream Warrior: Our Enemies Fight for Fantasies, not Freedom", Armed Forces Journal, May 2007.
External linksFNCV site fncv federation nationale combattants volontaires france association
English commentary on Lartéguy's books http://web.archive.org/web/200910270...eguy/books.htm

Sì, mi riferivo a I Centurioni, che so essere il più conosciuto.