Guy Pedroncini (1924-2006) was a French academic and military historian specialising in the

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, and notable as the biographer of

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and for his work on the French army mutinies of 1917. Carlier, Claude; Allain, Jean-Claude (2006) "In memoriam Guy Pedroncini
''Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains''
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. pp 3-5. Issue: 224. Sep 2006. He was born in Paris on 17 May 1924 and died on 11 July 2006, at the age of 82.

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''Guy Pedroncini'' (obituary). 18 July 2006. Retrieved: 2009-01-17. An alumnus of the prestigious

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at Saint-Cloud, Pedroncini worked as a high school teacher in

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and in Courbevoie while working on his doctoral thesis. This thesis, on the French army mutinies of 1917, was published in 1967 and was the first to provide detailed statistical analysis of more than 600 courts martial, based on his then unprecedented access to the French military justice archives. Offenstadt, Nicolas (1999). ''Les Fusillés de la Grande Guerre''. Paris: Éditions Odile Jacob. Page 14. Between 1969 and his retirement in 1992, Pedroncini held professorial and

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posts at the universities of the Sorbonne, Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris and the

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, Le Mans. He was director of the ''Institut d'Histoire des conflits contemporains'', from 1983 to 1995, and publisher of the ''Revue des guerres mondiales et des conflits contemporains'' from 1985 to 1997.

Bibliography

* ''Les Mutineries de 1917'' 967 Presses Universitaires de France (Series: ''Publications de la Sorbonne'') (Reprinted 1999). * ''1917, les mutineries de l'armée française''. Julliard (1968). * ''Les Négociations secrètes pendant la Grande Guerre''. Paris: Flammarion (1969). * ''Le Haut Commandement français et la conduite de la guerre 1917-1918''. Paris: Flammarion (1971). * ''Pétain, général en chef 1917-1918''

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Presses Universitaires de France (1997). * ''Pétain, le soldat et la gloire''. Paris: Perrin (1989). * ''Journal du Maréchal Joffre''. Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre (1990). * ''Pétain, la victoire perdue 1918-1940''. Paris: Perrin (1995). * ''Histoire militaire de la France. Tome 3''. Quadrige (1995). * ''Des étoiles et des croix''. Economica (1995). * ''L'émergence des armes nouvelles 1914-1918'' (with Claude Carlier). Economica (1997) (Series: ''Hautes études militaires'') * ''La bataille de Verdun'' (with Claude Carlier). Economica (1997). * ''Pétain, le soldat 1914-1940''. Perrin (1998). * ''Les poilus ont la parole'' (with Jean Nicot and André Bach). Éditions Complexe (1998). * ''La Grande Guerre d'un lieutenant d'artillerie. Carnets de guerre de 1914 à 1919'' (with Pierre Grison). L'Harmattan (2000). * ''La défense sous la troisième république, 1 : Vaincre la défaite, 1872-1881. 1. Armée de terre'' (2000). Pub: Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pedroncini, Guy Writers from Paris 1924 births 2006 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris Historians of World War I French military writers French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French historians Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) 20th-century French male writers