Martin Windrow, Wayne Braby

French Foreign Legion Paratroops (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Lyles, Kevin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The decision, in Spring 1948, to form two battalions of Foreign Legion paratroopers was prompted by the requirement for enlarged airborne forces in Indochina, and the healthy recruitment then employed by the Legion. There were some initial doubts. The Legion were known to be magnificent heavy infantry, but were felt by some to lack the flexibility and agility demanded by independent airborne operations. In the Legion itself there were some misgivings over the possible clash between the self-consciously exclusive 'para mentality', and the Legion's own very marked ésprit de corps. Over time, however, all these doubts evaporated with experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472803740
• Artikelnr.: 44980063

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

The Indochina War 1946
54 · Dien Bien Phu · The Algerian War 1954
62 · Para
Commandos · The Plates