The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting ForceHarperCollins Publishers, 1991 - 728 pages The legend of Beau Gaste and the hell-raising, hard-drinking, long-suffering, loyal Legionnaires has been immortalized by countless novels and Hollywood movies. Here Douglas Porch examines the Legion myth and goes beyond it to explore the Legion's mystique and describe its performance from its founding in 1831 to today. 32 pages of halftones; maps; index. |
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... Moslem Algerians remembered May 8 , 1945 , as the war's birth- day . A VE Day celebration in the town of Sétif , whose bleak streets etched a rectilinear pattern on a dusty plateau eighty miles west of Constantine , turned nasty when ...
... Moslem Algerians remembered May 8 , 1945 , as the war's birth- day . A VE Day celebration in the town of Sétif , whose bleak streets etched a rectilinear pattern on a dusty plateau eighty miles west of Constantine , turned nasty when ...
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... Moslem and pied noir , down to babes in arms , often after mutilating their victims in the most grisly and obscene ... Moslem civil- ians , precisely as the FLN had calculated . The French became convinced that every Moslem was a ...
... Moslem and pied noir , down to babes in arms , often after mutilating their victims in the most grisly and obscene ... Moslem civil- ians , precisely as the FLN had calculated . The French became convinced that every Moslem was a ...
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... Moslem immigration into France . Even putting aside the question of whether a Moslem elite cared to turn its back on a rich Islamic and Maghrebian heritage to embrace a French one , or whether France was prepared to make the substantial ...
... Moslem immigration into France . Even putting aside the question of whether a Moslem elite cared to turn its back on a rich Islamic and Maghrebian heritage to embrace a French one , or whether France was prepared to make the substantial ...
Table des matières
Le Plus Beau Corps de France | 1 |
Between Politics Diplomacy and the Cannon The Legion in Spain 18351839 | 22 |
The New Legion | 50 |
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