Martin Windrow

French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Chappell, Mike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780962375
• Artikelnr.: 38348351

Autorenporträt

Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French Army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

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
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