Jean Larteguy

The Centurions

Übersetzer: Fielding, Xan

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering a military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency, this wartime novel is about controversial tactics in hot spots around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780143107446
• ISBN-10: 0143107445
• Artikelnr.: 41610147

Autorenporträt

JEAN LARTÉGUY (1920-2011) is the penname of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, who served as a soldier in Korea and North Africa before becoming a distinguished journalist and novelist. ALEXANDER (XAN) WALLACE FIELDING (1918-1991) served as a Special Operations Executive in the British Army in Crete, France, and the Far East. The author of several books, he also translated French works including Pierre Boulle's The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes. ROBERT D. KAPLAN is the author of many acclaimed books on the military, foreign affairs, and travel, including Balkan Ghosts, The Revenge of Geography, and Imperial Grunts.