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  • Camaradas bajo la arena

    La Legión Extranjera francesa

    par Martin Windrow ...
    Desde los años veinte, la imagen popular de la Legión Extranjera francesa quedó grabada en el imaginario colectivo a partir de la novela Beau Geste, de P. C. Wren: un mundo de aislados y remotos fortines, feroces tribus guerreras y hombres desesperados de todas las nacionalidades que, huyendo de turbios pasados, se alistaban bajo seudónimos para luchar y morir bajo el sol del desierto. Una imagen ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar

    par Martin Windrow ...
    ‘Perched on the back of a sunlit chair was something about 9 inches tall and shaped rather like a plump toy penguin with a nose-job. It appeared to be wearing a one-piece knitted jumpsuit of pale grey fluff with brown stitching, complete with an attached balaclava helmet. From the face-hole of the fuzzy balaclava, two big, shiny black eyes gazed up at me trustfully. Kweep*, it said quietly.’*When ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Last Valley

    Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

    par Martin Windrow ...
    Stalingrad in the jungle: the battle that doomed the French Empire and led America into VietnamIn winter 1953-54 the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Giap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and légionnaires, with artillery and tanks, were flown to the remote valley of Dien Bien Phu to build a fortress upon which Giap could smash his inexperienced ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Our Friends Beneath the Sands

    The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935

    par Martin Windrow ...
    The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara.Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU GESTE - a world of remote forts, warrior tribes, and desperate men of all nationalities enlisting under pseudonyms to fight and die under the desert sun.As with all clichés, the reality is far richer and more surprising ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Algerian War 1954–62

    par Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Collections series Men-at-Arms
    It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria.In the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat; it destroyed thousands of careers; bitterly divided the French military and political classes for a generation; and was ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The French Foreign Legion

    par Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Collections series Men-at-Arms
    It is arguable that no group of fighting men in the history of European arms has been so misrepresented by ill-informed publicity as the French Foreign Legion.Though initially conceived in 1831 as a means of drafting recently discharged foreign soldiers to Algeria, the Legion has developed into a sophisticated force of motorized infantry, airborne troops and light armour.In this book, acclaimed ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Warriors

    Fighting men and their uniforms

    par Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Warriors: Fighting men and their uniforms is a journey through the whole span of military history using illustrations of the uniforms of warriors from ancient times to the present day.From ancient times to the present day, the world's finest warriors have been marked out by a stunning variety of dress, tactics and equipment. This splendid collection of artwork and commentaries illustrates famous ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The French Indochina War 1946–54

    par Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Collections series Men-at-Arms
    The states of Indochina had been French colonies or protectorates since the 19th century.However, in March 1945 the Japanese interned all French troops and officials, and turned over all civil government to local authorities. The power vacuum caused by the Japanese surrender allowed the Viet Minh, a strong revolutionary organisation, to be established throughout Vietnam.When the French returned to ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Rif War 1921–26

    Morocco's Berber Uprising

    par Philip Jowett, Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Collections Livre 257 - Elite
    An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco.In June 1921, Abd el Krim, a Berber leader in the Rif highlands of Morocco, marshalled a pan-tribal uprising that killed some 13,000 Spanish troops, forcing occupying Spain to withdraw from the country's north coast and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • French Foreign Legion 1872–1914

    par Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Collections series Men-at-Arms
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.29 CAD

  • French Foreign Legion 1872–1914

    par Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Collections Livre 461 - Men-at-Arms
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.29 CAD

  • French Foreign Légionnaire 1890–1914

    par Mr Martin Windrow ...
    Collections Livre 157 - Warrior
    As France emerged from the Franco-Prussian War she embarked on a period of active colonialism, acquiring territories in South-East Asia and Africa. By the turn of the century much of north, west and central Africa was under French control. In order to police all of these territories, the French needed an army and so the French Foreign Legion was born. In this book, world-renowned Legion expert ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD