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French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 Martin Windrow

French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 von Martin Windrow

French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 Martin Windrow


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Zusammenfassung

Covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. This title examines and illustrates their varied uniforms and equipments for each period and theatre. It is written by a leading expert on the French Foreign Legion.

French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 Zusammenfassung

French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 Martin Windrow

This volume covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. Legion battalions fought in the deserts and mountains of southern Algeria and Morocco, as well as in the jungles of North Vietnam, West Africa and Madagascar. Their varied uniforms and equipments for each period and theatre are illustrated and examined. Written by a leading expert on the French Foreign Legion, this is a colourful introduction to the period when the Legion forged their legendary fighting reputation.

Über Martin Windrow

Martin Windrow was born in 1944 and educated at Wellington College. Since the 1970s he has worked in book publishing as a commissioning and art editor specializing in military and aviation history. He is a series editor at Osprey and an authority on the French Foreign Legion. He is the author of the highly successful Men-at-Arms 300: French Foreign Legion since 1945 and Men-at-Arms 322: The French War in Indochina 1946-54. He is an Associate of the Royal Historical Society and of the Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain. In 2004 his major study The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam was published to critical acclaim in Britain and the USA.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Legion following the Franco-Prussian War /Algeria 1871-83 /Tonkin (N.Vietnam): conquest 1882-85 - pacification 1886-1900 /Madagascar: conquest 1896 - pacification 1896-1900 /Algerian Desert 1890-1902 /Moroccan Intervention: Casablanca 1907-08 - Fes 1911-12 - Eastern High Plains 1908-12 /French Moroccan Protectorate 1912-14

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR005314569
9781849083263
1849083266
French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 Martin Windrow
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20100710
48
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