Pour la Patrie

Vitéz Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. In a divergence from his more familiar work on military history covering the period 1900-1945, his latest book, “Pour la Patrie” covers the commanders and armies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars during 1792-1815. It contains the biographies of 136 general officers who commanded those armies, and includes a listing of the 52 major commands of the French Army and a chronological listing of their commanders.

Until recently, Kursietis served as the Chairman, President and CEO of the Latvian Welfare Association in the USA (Daugavas Vanagi ASV), as well as Vice-Chairman of the organization’s international board. He has been married to Rosemarie for thirty-eight years, and credits her for encouraging him to share the fruits of his many years of research with a wider audience of historians. For his previous work on the Hungarian military, in September 2022 Kursietis was knighted in the Hungarian Knightly Order of Vitéz.