Author: Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book gives the reader a straightforward and continuous survey of the history of the French Foreign Legion. By outlining the Legion's vicissitudes, victorious campaigns, epic marches, heroic and sometimes hopeless stands, dirtiest combats and dramatic defeats, but also by briefly placing the Legion back in the historical background of France, and by describing its development, organization, uniforms, equipments and weapons, the author hopes to dispel myths, and try to give a true and accurate picture of what the French Foreign Legion has been from 1831 until today. There are well-researched, detailed line drawings throughout.
The French Foreign Legion
Author: Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book gives the reader a straightforward and continuous survey of the history of the French Foreign Legion. By outlining the Legion's vicissitudes, victorious campaigns, epic marches, heroic and sometimes hopeless stands, dirtiest combats and dramatic defeats, but also by briefly placing the Legion back in the historical background of France, and by describing its development, organization, uniforms, equipments and weapons, the author hopes to dispel myths, and try to give a true and accurate picture of what the French Foreign Legion has been from 1831 until today. There are well-researched, detailed line drawings throughout.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book gives the reader a straightforward and continuous survey of the history of the French Foreign Legion. By outlining the Legion's vicissitudes, victorious campaigns, epic marches, heroic and sometimes hopeless stands, dirtiest combats and dramatic defeats, but also by briefly placing the Legion back in the historical background of France, and by describing its development, organization, uniforms, equipments and weapons, the author hopes to dispel myths, and try to give a true and accurate picture of what the French Foreign Legion has been from 1831 until today. There are well-researched, detailed line drawings throughout.
Devils, Not Men
Author: Roy Claude Anderson
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Blaise Cendrars
Author: Eric Robertson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145198
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A new account of the life and work of innovative, pseudonymous French poet, novelist, essayist, and film writer Blaise Cendrars. In 1912 the young Frédéric-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity. Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the next half-century, Cendrars wrote innovative poems, novels, essays, film scripts, and autobiographical prose. His groundbreaking books and collaborations with artists such as Sonia Delaunay and Fernand Léger remain astonishingly modern today. Cendrars’s writings reflect his insatiable curiosity, his vast knowledge, which was largely self-taught, and his love of everyday life. In this new account, Eric Robertson examines Cendrars’s work against a turbulent historical background and reassesses his contribution to twentieth-century literature. Robertson shows how Cendrars is as relevant today as ever and deserves a wider readership in the English-speaking world.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145198
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A new account of the life and work of innovative, pseudonymous French poet, novelist, essayist, and film writer Blaise Cendrars. In 1912 the young Frédéric-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity. Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the next half-century, Cendrars wrote innovative poems, novels, essays, film scripts, and autobiographical prose. His groundbreaking books and collaborations with artists such as Sonia Delaunay and Fernand Léger remain astonishingly modern today. Cendrars’s writings reflect his insatiable curiosity, his vast knowledge, which was largely self-taught, and his love of everyday life. In this new account, Eric Robertson examines Cendrars’s work against a turbulent historical background and reassesses his contribution to twentieth-century literature. Robertson shows how Cendrars is as relevant today as ever and deserves a wider readership in the English-speaking world.
Kelly of the Foreign Legion
Author: Russell Anthony Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Wide World Magazine
In the Foreign Legion
Author: Erwin Rosen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers of fortune
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers of fortune
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
French Foreign Legion
Author: Martin Windrow
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1846037239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Men of action and elite soldiers with a young and dynamic spirit, the French Foreign Legion are capable of doing their duty anywhere anytime. Martin Windrow's superb text examines the history of this famous force from the end of the Second World War onward. This first class addition to the Men-at-Arms series not only contains the usual wealth of accompanying photographs and illustrations, including eight full page colour plates by Mike Chappell, but is extended by a further 16 pages, allowing the author to display the full range of his expert knowledge, including 11 pages devoted to uniforms.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1846037239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Men of action and elite soldiers with a young and dynamic spirit, the French Foreign Legion are capable of doing their duty anywhere anytime. Martin Windrow's superb text examines the history of this famous force from the end of the Second World War onward. This first class addition to the Men-at-Arms series not only contains the usual wealth of accompanying photographs and illustrations, including eight full page colour plates by Mike Chappell, but is extended by a further 16 pages, allowing the author to display the full range of his expert knowledge, including 11 pages devoted to uniforms.
French Foreign Legion for Beginners
Author: Thomas Gast
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752867299
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book is the perfect guide for anyone interested in joining the French Foreign Legion. Do you meet the entry requirements? What needs special attention? Will you be able to get out of the contract? Do you have to speak French? How fit do you really have to be? Are tattoos or glasses a problem? How can I prepare physically, etc.? All the answers meet the latest standards. - I advise no one to join the French Foreign Legion on the assumption of glamour or glory - the Author says: Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan).
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752867299
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book is the perfect guide for anyone interested in joining the French Foreign Legion. Do you meet the entry requirements? What needs special attention? Will you be able to get out of the contract? Do you have to speak French? How fit do you really have to be? Are tattoos or glasses a problem? How can I prepare physically, etc.? All the answers meet the latest standards. - I advise no one to join the French Foreign Legion on the assumption of glamour or glory - the Author says: Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan).
Britain's Pacification of Palestine
Author: Matthew Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107103207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The British Army's devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107103207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The British Army's devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
In the Foreign Legion
Author: Rosen Erwin
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318040155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318040155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.