Frédéric Pons (born in 1954) is a French Army officer and journalist.
Biography
Pons served as a
Blue Helmet
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Troupes de marine
The (TDM, ) is a corps of the French Army that includes several specialities: infantry, artillery, armoured, airborne, engineering, and transmissions (Signals).
Despite its name, it forms part of the Army, not the Navy. Intended for amphibio ... , and is now a reserve officer. He teaches at the
Collège interarmées de défense
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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr (). It is located in Coëtquidan in Guer, Morbihan, Brittany. Its motto is ... .
He also works as a journalist at ''
Spectacle du Monde '', and as chief redactor of the World service of ''
Valeurs Actuelles ''. He is president of the Association des Journalistes de la Défense (AJD), an association of journalists specialised in Defence matters.
In 1996, Pons was awarder the Erwan Bergot literary prize by the Army for ''Les Français à Sarajevo''.
Works
* ''Esthétique et politique : les intellectuels fascistes français et le cinéma : Rebatet, Brasillach, Bardèche, 1930-1945'', Master thesis,
Université Paris-I , 1977
* ''Action humanitaire et politique internationale : Politique et morale'' (co-authored with
Alain-Gérard Slama and
Jean-Marc Varaut ), CASE, 1993
* ''Les Paras sacrifiés, Beyrouth, 1983-1984'', Presses de la Cité, 1994
* ''Les Français à Sarajevo : les bataillons piégés, 1992 - 1995'', Presses de la Cité, 1996,
Prix littéraire de l'armée de terre - Erwan Bergot
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* ''Les Troupeaux du diable'', Presses de la Cité, 1999
* ''Les Casques bleus français : 50 ans au service de la paix dans le monde'', Italiques, 2002
* ''Les Soleils de l'Adour'', Presses de la Cité, 2003
* ''Pièges à Bagdad'', Presses de la Cité, 2004
* ''Passeurs de nuit'', Presses de la Cité, 2006
* ''Israël en état de choc'', Presses de la Cité, 2007
* ''La République des militaires'' (co-authored with
Jean-Dominique Merchet
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* ''Mourir pour le Liban'', Presses de la Cité, 2007
* ''Paras de choc au combat'', Presses de la Cité, 2009
* ''Opérations extérieures'', Presses de la Cité, 2009
* ''Algérie, le vrai état des lieux'',
Calmann-Lévy
Calmann-Lévy is a French publishing house founded in 1836 by Michel Lévy as ''Michel Lévy frères''. His brother Kalmus Calmann Lévy joined in 1844, and the firm was renamed ''Calmann Lévy'' in 1875 after Michel's death.Calmann-Lévy
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* ''Le martyre des Chrétiens d'Orient'', ]Calmann-Lévy
Calmann-Lévy is a French publishing house founded in 1836 by Michel Lévy as ''Michel Lévy frères''. His brother Kalmus Calmann Lévy joined in 1844, and the firm was renamed ''Calmann Lévy'' in 1875 after Michel's death.[Karthala, 2019
* ''Les Pèlerins du diable'',
]
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