Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 288 p. The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey. An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically grueling training...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 458 p. What attracts men from 136 different nations to embrace the harsh military code of an army that requires them to lay down their lives for a country not their own, if ordered to do so by politicians whose language many of them hardly speak? Douglas Boyd’s history of the Legion answers that question, with fifteen historic...
Histoire & Collections, 2002. — 176 p. Translated from the French by Alan McKay "The Légionnaires Parachutistes are modest people in spite of their brilliant service record. They are hard workers and are faithful to the old adage that 'toil saves blood'; they are always ready for the tasks that the Republic entrusts to them. When this is the case, the mission is carried out...
Westholme Publishing, 2021. — 182 p. So Bennett J. Doty confessed when he sailed for France and enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1924. A World War I veteran and University of Virginia student, Doty first trained in Morocco and Algeria before being shipped off to the French-controlled State of Syria. There, he and his fellow "bleus," who hailed from Belgium, Poland,...
New York: War Departament, 1968. — 268 p. This manual is not the complete textbook on the combat training of Legion parachutists, since the training is continually updated. The translated text is the consolidated parachute company's instruction manuals A Carnet de Combat and the pocket guide issued to every Legionnaire parachutist on completion of training in the "4th...
New York: Facts on File Publishing, 1987. — 376 p. — ISBN: 0-8160-1794-8. В книге описывается история и военные кампании, в которых участвовал Французский Иностранный Легион с 1831 года.
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 288 p. The French Foreign Legion has established a reputation as the most formidable of military forces. Created as a means of protecting French interests abroad, the legion spearheaded French colonialism in North Africa during the nineteenth century. Accepting volunteers from all parts of the world, the legion acquired an aura of mysteryand a less...
Boston: Little: Braun and Company, 1942. — 293 p. Four Days after Being Wounded in the Desert. One Month after Wound, with First Decoration. At the Scottish Hospital, near Jerusalem. Lieutenant Hasey Decorated by General Catroux. Training near Paris. Off to Finland from Paris. The Iroquois Ambulance Corps at the Chateau. Around the Table with Eddie Wiggins. Ambulance Drivers in...
Arcole Publishing, 2017. — 155 p. This is the true story of Jack Hasey, an American captain in the Free French Foreign Legion during the Second World War, who was critically wounded during the Battle of Damascus in June 1941. His bravery earned him the Order of the Cross of Liberty, the Croix de guerre 39-45 with four citations, and the Insignia for the Military Wounded. He...
Spellmount Ltd., 2005. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-1-862272-95-6. The History of the French Foreign Legion reveals the facts and reality behind this compelling organization. Its record in combat is described in full, from the Legion's deployment in the conquest of Algeria in the 1840s to its role as a peacekeeping force in the world's troublespots today. The ascetic lifestyle of a...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 752 p. The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner workings of legionnaires and their captains....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 752 p. The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner workings of legionnaires and their captains....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 752 p. The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner workings of legionnaires and their captains....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. — 728 p. — ISBN: 0-06-016652-5 The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner...
Routledge, 2016. — 255 p. Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure in the notion of the voluntary total organization; that is to say, an institution that constitutes a geographically delimited place of residence and work in which inmates are voluntarily separated from the...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1954. — 276 с. Французский иностранный легион существует с 1831 года. Правящие круги Франции используют иностранный легион для беспощадного подавления национально-освободительного движения в своих колониях. Стало традицией набирать в этот легион подонки общества: убийц и грабителей, воров и насильников — одним словом, отъявленных уголовных...
THE French Foreign Legion (A guidebook to joining). — 150 с. Перевод: Олег Е. Шевцов Девиз Легиона: «Honneur et Fidélité» (Честь и верность) История Французского Иностранного Легиона. Французский Иностранный Легион был сформирован 9 марта 1831 марта. Приказ о его образовании был подписан королем Франции Луи Филиппом. Положение его трона было ослаблено и Легион был быстро...
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