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Thanks to countless films and books, an entire mythology surrounds the French Foreign Legion and the anonymous, desperate men who fought and died under the desert sun. But the reality is far richer, and Martin Windrow describes it in gripping detail, including the colonial missions in North Africa and Vietnam, the imperative to build empire, and the impact of Islamic fundamentalism.
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About the Author
Martin Windrow was born in 1944 and educated at Wellington College After working, in newspaper and magazine journalism in the 1960s he specialized in military and aviation subjects, and since the 1970s he was worked in book publishing as a commissioning and art editor. He has edited many hundreds of books and monographs mostly in specialist area of military history, and has written a number of titles in the same field. In 2004 Weidenfeld & Nicoloson published his The Last Valley; Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam to widespread critical acclaim. He currently works as a freelance editor from his home in Sussex. He is an Associate of the Royal Historical Society, and for nearly thirty years an Associate of the Foreign Legion Assciation of Great Britain.
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"there is no denying his ability to tell a good story, with plenty of action to carry the reader along" -- Christopher Allmand THE TABLET "a large, very well written and endearing book" -- Bertrand Taithe LITERARY REVIEW "a considerably wider factual story. everything the general reader will ever want to know" -- John Hinton CATHOLIC HERALD "Brilliantly evocative writing from an expert historian" MILITARY ILLUSTRATED "compelling style and (a) talent for pithy characterization" -- Ian Beckett TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0297852132
- ISBN 13 9780297852131
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages752
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