Our friends beneath the sands : the Foreign Legion in France's colonial conquests 1870-1935
Windrow, Martin2011
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This book examines the 'golden age' of the French Foreign Legion in detail.
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Imprint:
London : Phoenix, 2011.
Collation:
lv, 696 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Soldiering in the Time of Fever -- 1.The Tools of Empire -- 2.`France Overseas' -- 3.La Mission Civilisatrice and the Straw Hat Trade -- 4.The Year of the Five Kings -- 5.General Vengeance and King Zinc-Nose -- 6.Tiger Country -- 7.`A Calling Devoid of Allurement' -- pt. TWO Maroc -- 8.The Instruments of Downfall - 1893-9 -- 9.Sixty Thousand Dead Camels - 1900-1902 -- 10.Blood and Sand - 1902-1903 -- 11.The Lyautey Drill - 1904-1907 -- 12.Two Kinds of War - 1908 -- 13.Falling towards Fes - 1909-12 -- 14.The Immaculate Raiment - 1912-14 -- 15.The Lobster Shell - 1914-18 -- 16.Flawed Blades - 1919-22 -- 17.`The Most Indomitable Race in the World' - 1923-24 -- 18.Dropping the Baton - 1925 -- 19.The Reckoning-1926-30 -- 20.`Obscure and Unknown Sacrifices' - 1930-34.
ISBN:
9780753828564 (pbk)
Dewey class:
355.3590944355.359
Language:
English
Subject:
France. Armee. Legion etrangere -- History -- 19th centuryFrance. Armee. Legion etrangere -- History -- 20th centuryFrance -- History, Military -- 19th centuryFrance -- History, Military -- 20th centuryAfrica, North -- History, Military -- 19th centuryAfrica, North -- History, Military -- 20th century
BRN:
11809