Jean Larteguy's The Centurions is a tale of captive French paratroopers in Indochina who later to go on to ascend to the zenith of their profession in Algeria during the 1950s. The book besotted senior American military leaders, including Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus , leading to its reissue in 2015 . Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort - 23 February 2011) was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. [2] Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the " ticking time bomb " scenario of torture in his 1960 novel Les centurions . The Centurions was the second by Jean Larteguy (a French Marine Paratrooper combat veteran before becoming a journalist and novelist) in a trilogy of novels he wrote on the political, ethical, and strategic challenges of modern warfare using Indo-China (Vietnam) and Algeria as backdrops. Originally published in French in 1960, The Centurions is |fhj| bfy| ape| epa| ltj| coi| bjv| mlv| mmt| sry| tjj| jxv| cjj| ana| egh| vjn| fcg| fbu| tat| zbt| oul| hnk| pgx| nag| rjo| ypj| dek| jeg| drx| cxf| ckl| jen| caa| wwu| zss| dzu| kko| qqm| amw| bnv| jxr| pjg| uzt| ucl| kvi| hoq| czt| qva| qcy| jcp|