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Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The French Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935

paperback – February 7, 2012
by Windrow, Martin
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ISBN-13: 9780753828564 ISBN-10: 0753828561
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Binding
paperback
Published
February 7, 2012
Weight
2.3 lbs
Dimensions
24.10×4.80×15.20 cm

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Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The French Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 by Windrow, Martin. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780753828564.

Thanks to countless films and books, an entire mythology surrounds the French Foreign Legion and the anonymous, desperate men who fought and died under the desert sun. But the reality is far richer, and Martin Windrow describes it in gripping detail, including the colonial missions in North Africa and Vietnam, the imperative to build empire, and the impact of Islamic fundamentalism.