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By Martin Windrow,Peter Dennis

As France emerged from the Franco-Prussian struggle she launched into a interval of energetic colonialism, buying territories in South-East Asia and Africa. through the flip of the century a lot of north, west and critical Africa was once less than French keep watch over. that allows you to police all of those territories, the French wanted a military and so the French overseas Legion was once born. during this publication, world-renowned Legion specialist Martin Windrow analyses what it's going to were prefer to be a member of the French overseas Legion and the way the adventure, gear, strategies and coaching of the Legion constructed within the eighty years among their starting place and the outbreak of the 1st international struggle. He investigates their glory years in North Africa and Indochina, and attracts broadly on memoirs from British legionnaires, peppering the textual content with impressive first-hand debts of the French international Legion.

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