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Adrian Gilbert is a writer and editorial consultant specialising in military and historical subjects. He has contributed to several military TV documentaries and written for a variety of publications including The Good Book Guide, Gramophone, Time Out and The Guardian.
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Military historian Gilbert (Sniper: The Skills, the Weapons, and the Experiences) focuses on the French Foreign Legion, beginning with its 1831 formation by royal decree as an infantry force for overseas service. Gilbert gained access to the Imperial War Museum sound archive along with permission to use material from that key source. The book consists of excerpts from these and other firsthand accounts skillfully linked to vivify his informative and insightful interpolations. He sets the scenes with a vivid backdrop, letting the first-person passages take center stage. The reader peruses the nightmarish horrors of the battlefields but also the daily life of barracks, barrooms, and brothels, such as the congaļs (young girls) in 1950s Indochina. One soldier wrote: Cheerful and hardworking, they knew, biblically, very nearly everyone in the battalion and gave not one damn for rank. The history traces the legion through colonial and postcolonial eras, through both world wars, Vietnam, Algeria, Bosnia, and the Congo. These vibrant legionnaire voices are agonized, bitter, brutal, fearful, and haunting, but some speak with pride and praise (It's a soldier's dream), recalling the legion as a life-changing experience. Maps. (May)
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- Publication date2009
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- ISBN 13 9781845964092
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book condition is fine. 1st edition. No dust jacket. Book boards clean front and back. Book block clean. Spine intact. Text body clean. Overall an excellent and neat copy. The French Foreign Legion has a reputation as the most formidable of military institutions . Established as a means of absorbing foreign troublemakers, until spearheaded French colonialism in North Africa during the nineteenth century. Accepting volunteers from all parts of the world, the Legion acquired an aura of mystery - and less than enviable reputation for brutality within in ranks. Voices of the Foreign Legion looks at how the Legion selects it's recruits, where they come from and why they seek a life of hardship and danger. It also analysis the outfit's robust attitude bto discipline, question why desertion is perennial problem abd assesses the Legion's military achievements since its formation ninc1831. This is the real story of the Legion, featuring first hand accounts from the men who have fought in its ranks. It's scope ranges from the conquest of the colonies in Africa and the far East, though the horrors of two World Wars to the bitter but ultimately hopeless battles to maintain Frence's imperial possessions. The story is brought fully up-to-date date with access and anecdotes from those Foreign legionnaires who continue to fight for French interests around the globe. Overall an excellent and neat copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1677525262881
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