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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... NCOs and the corporals whom we have provisionally chosen are that in name only . They do not wear , nor can they wear , distinctive marks of rank . They have no confidence in themselves . They are without author- ity and cannot act ...
... NCOs and the corporals whom we have provisionally chosen are that in name only . They do not wear , nor can they wear , distinctive marks of rank . They have no confidence in themselves . They are without author- ity and cannot act ...
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... NCOS with a disciplinary record from the training cadre . " The purge was complete , and for us , life got better . " 131 Premschwitz found the training NCOS swelled with self - importance and generally insulting , a defect that was not ...
... NCOS with a disciplinary record from the training cadre . " The purge was complete , and for us , life got better . " 131 Premschwitz found the training NCOS swelled with self - importance and generally insulting , a defect that was not ...
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... NCOs have already been discussed . No doubt some of them depended upon brutality to enforce their authority , a brutality that caused discipline problems . But the view of the Legion NCO as the half - mad sadist of anti - Legion lore ...
... NCOs have already been discussed . No doubt some of them depended upon brutality to enforce their authority , a brutality that caused discipline problems . But the view of the Legion NCO as the half - mad sadist of anti - Legion lore ...
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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1er étranger Abd el-Kader Abd el-Krim Algeria Algiers appeared Arabs Armée d'Afrique artillery attack Azan barracks battalion battle became began believed Bernelle Bugeaud camp campaign Captain Carlist caused cavalry Chinese colonial column combat command complained corps Dahomans Dahomey DBLE defense desertion despite discipline enemy enlisted especially étranger fact fighting fire Flutsch force Foreign Legion fought France French army garrison German Grisot guerre Herbillon Indochina infantry Jews Kemencei killed lack Lamborelle Lang Son large number Légion étrangère Legion officers legionnaires Lyautey Madagascar Martyn Mexican military morale Moroccan Morocco Moslem mounted companies naires NCOs North Africa operations paras Paris perhaps pied noir Poer political posts problems recruits regiment régiment de marche régiment étranger RMLE Rollet Rosen Saint-Arnaud sent September sergeant served SHAT Sidi-bel-Abbès soldiers Souvenirs Spanish Sylvère tirailleurs Tonkin troops Tuyen Quang units Viet Minh Vietnamese volunteers wounded wrote Zaatcha Zédé zouaves