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The Last Square the fighters of the impossible

2021-10-08T13:33:36.274Z


STORY - The writer Jean Sévillia looks back on these great moments in history during which men have chosen to fight to the end, to defend a cause… A journey between heroism and madness.


THE FIGARO MAGAZINE.

- What is your definition of the "last square"?

JEAN SEVILLIA.

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In many armed conflicts, whether it be wars between states, nations and peoples or civil wars, a "last square" of combatants fight to the last extremity, even when these men know or have a presentiment that their camp is beaten.

The question is to understand what determines them to continue fighting, risking their lives, since in all cases, dead or alive, they will be defeated.

This is what we wanted to expose in this collective book written by 23 historians and journalists, through 25 examples drawn from history.

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Do your 25 chapters cover a complete panorama of this phenomenon?

The subtitle of the work specifies that it runs “from Antiquity to the present day”.

But it was obviously impossible to deal with everything over two millennia.

We have chosen representative episodes by major periods, while assuming that modern and contemporary history

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Source: lefigaro

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