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Item Details
| Title:
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TRUE STORIES OF THE FOREIGN LEGION
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| By: |
Robin Hunter |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0753501309 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780753501306 |
| Publisher: |
EBURY PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
17 April, 1997 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
This account chronically charts the manoeuvres of the Foreign Legion and its soldiers as a rapid reaction force. Robin Hunter examines the operations and battles that have earned them fear and respect worldwide, as well as discussing the men behind the myth. |
| Synopsis: |
The Foreign Legion and its soldiers have fascinated for decades. The Beau Geste myth has given them the reputation of dangerous, desperate men who have transferred their allegiance from their country to the Legion itself. Robin Hunter has explored the men behind the myth, and the operations and battles that have earned them fear and respect worldwide. Chronologically charting their 20th-century manoeuvres as a rapid reaction force, Hunter tells the story behind their campaigns: how they held back Rommel's Afrika Korps, resisted Ho Chi Min in the siege of Dien Bien Phu, how they fought in the mountains in the Algerian War and their role in Beiruit and the Gulf War. |
| Illustrations: |
8pp b&w photographs, maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virgin Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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