Martin Windrow

French Foreign Légionnaire 1890-1914 (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Dennis, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Martin Windrow analyses what it would have been like to be a member of the French Foreign Legion and how the experience, equipment, tactics and training of the Legion developed in the 80 years between their foundation and the outbreak of the First World War. He investigates their glory years in North Africa and Indochina, and draws extensively on memoirs from two British legionnaires, peppering the text with extraordinary first-hand accounts of the French Foreign Legion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849084239
• Artikelnr.: 44868575

Autorenporträt

Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French Army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chronology
Recruitment
Training
Appearance
Life in peacetime
Belief and belonging
Life on campaign
The experience of battle
The aftermath of battle
Museums
Select bibliography
Index