General François Lecointre: “We are not waging war for democracy but for the interests of France” Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces from 2017 to 2021 and Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor. Between Wars (Gallimard), a literary story in which he recounts his military journey and his dilemmas of soldier.
Many Americans who landed in 1944 never had a physical confrontation with an enemy; conversely, many French soldiers experienced fire without their country being officially ‘at war’