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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... political ideology was an inadequate basis for military cohesion in the confused circumstances of civil war . A political situation that appeared to those north of the Pyrenees to be a clear - cut struggle between constitutionalists and ...
... political ideology was an inadequate basis for military cohesion in the confused circumstances of civil war . A political situation that appeared to those north of the Pyrenees to be a clear - cut struggle between constitutionalists and ...
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... political events in the metropole [ a reference to the election of the left - wing Popular Front and widespread strikes ] , insidious and at the same time very active . ” Although the demonstrations , the work of " undesirable French ...
... political events in the metropole [ a reference to the election of the left - wing Popular Front and widespread strikes ] , insidious and at the same time very active . ” Although the demonstrations , the work of " undesirable French ...
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... political . While many of the volunteers of 1939-40 came forward to serve France as they had in 1914 , many also saw ... political repression at home and marched his regiments into Austria and eventually Czechoslovakia . German police ...
... political . While many of the volunteers of 1939-40 came forward to serve France as they had in 1914 , many also saw ... political repression at home and marched his regiments into Austria and eventually Czechoslovakia . German police ...
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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