Martin Windrow

French Foreign Legion 1872-1914 (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Chappell, Mike

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An illustrated history of 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 eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849083270
• Artikelnr.: 38360113

Autorenporträt

Martin Windrow is a series editor at Osprey and an authority on the French Foreign Legion. 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.

Mike Chappell retired in 1974, as RSM of the 1st Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers), after seeing service in Malaya, Cyprus, Swaziland, Libya, Germany, Ulster and home garrisons. He has written and illustrated many books for Osprey.

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
14