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The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
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In December 1953 French paratroopers, who had been searching for the elusive Vietnamese army, were quickly isolated by them and forced to retreat into their out-gunned and desolate jungle base-a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The Vietnamese besieged the French base for five long and desperate months. Eventually, the demoralized and weakened ...
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Knight's Cross, Oak-Leaves and Swords Recipients_1941-45
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Gordon Williamson, Martin Windrow (Editor), Ramiro Bujeiro (Illustrator)
On 21 June 1941, as the Wehrmacht stormed forward across frontiers of the Soviet Union, Hitler instituted a new higher grade of the Knight's Cross decoration for galantry and leadership: the silver clasp of the Oak-leaves with Swords. It would be awarded to only 159 men of the approximately 15 million who served in the German armed forces during ...
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World War II Combat Reconnaissance Tactics
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Gordon L Rottman, Martin Windrow (Editor), Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
Like so many aspects of battle, 'reconnaissance' is a familiar term, but few civilians have any idea how it is actually done or what it involves. In human terms, 'combat reconnaissance' means the first soldiers to go forward ahead of the main body of forces - either creeping through the landscape or, for larger units, actually driving forward into ...
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The Panzer divisions
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For the first three years of the Second World War the German Army's armoured formations dominated the world's battlefields. During this period the Panzerwaffe swept away all that was before them, achieving victories over numerically superior and sometimes better equipped opponents. This remarkable book by Martin Windrow deals with one of the ...
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The Mycenaeans c. 1650-1100 BC
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Nicolas Grguric, Martin Windrow (Editor), Angus McBride (Illustrator)
The timeless appeal of Homer's epic poem of the ancient Trojan War, The Illiad, has meant an enduring interest in the Mycenaen age. Modern scholarship and new archaeological evidence now allows us to reconstruct with reasonable confidence the appearance of the great warrior civilization, which dominated much of the eastern Mediterranean between ...
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Aircraft in profile.
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French Foreign Legion Paratroops
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Martin Windrow, Wayne Braby, Kevin L Lyles (Illustrator)
The decision, in Spring 1948, to form two battalions of Foreign Legion paratroopers was prompted by the requirement for enlarged airborne forces in Indochina, and the healthy recruitment then employed by the Legion. There were some initial doubts. The Legion were known to be magnificent heavy infantry, but were felt by some to lack the flexibility ...
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The Algerian War 1954-62
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Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell
In the mid-1950s to early 1960s the Algerian war dominated the European press, comparable in impact to the Vietnam War. France was divided politically, and governments rose and fell regularly. Algeria was France's oldest, richest and most integrated colony, but during the war in Indochina an underground separatist movement began. Its armed wing, ...
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Uniforms of the French Foreign Legion 1831-1981
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D Day and the Battle for Normandy
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Martin Windrow
An intimate, firsthand account of the men who stormed Hitler's Fortress Europe
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French Foreign Legion
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It is arguable that no group of fighting men in the history of European arms has been so misrepresented by ill-informed publicity as the French Foreign Legion. Though initially conceived in 1831 as a means of drafting recently discharged foreign soldiers to Algeria, the Legion has developed into a sophisticated force of motorized infantry, ...
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Waffen SS
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Martin Windrow
In the early 1920s, a tiny group was formed within the SA to serve as Hitler's personal bodyguard. Originally labelled the 'Stosstruppe Adolf Hitler', they later became known as the SS - Schutz Staffeln, or 'protection squads'. From these humble beginnings, the SS rose to a nominal strength of 38 divisions of over 800,000 men by 1945, representing ...
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The World War I Tommy
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The World War II GI
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Kevin L Lyles (Illustrator), Martin Windrow
Examines the day-to-day life and experiences of the typical American soldier during World War II. Includes a glossary of terms and a brief chronology of the major campaigns of the war.
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The Medieval Knight
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Martin Windrow
Examines the day-to-day life and experiences of a typical soldier during the middle ages in England and France. Includes a glossary of terms and a brief chronology of major military events from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
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Osprey Men-At-Arms: A Celebration
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Martin Windrow
"Osprey Men-at-Arms: A Celebration" is a very special volume detailing some of the wonderful artwork that has graced Osprey's renowned "Men-at-Arms" series over the last forty years. Beautifully presented in luxurious cloth, embossed and foil blocked, with head and tails bands and a ribbon bookmark, the collection companies the most treasured ...
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The World's Greatest Military Leaders: Two Hundred of the Most Significant Names in Land Warfare, from the 10th to the 20th Century
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Martin Windrow, Francis K Mason
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A Concise Dictionary of Military Biography: The Careers and Campaigns of 200 of the Most Important Military Leaders
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Martin Windrow, Francis K Mason
A concise dictionary of the most important military leaders in history, featuring detailed capsule biographies of 200 individuals from antiquity to the modern age. Included are military leaders known for their sheer genius (Genghis Khan, Frederick the Great, Napoleon); strategic ability (Wellington, Lee, Rommel, Eisenhower); incompetence or ...
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The British Reconnaissance Corps in World War II
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Richard Doherty, Martin Windrow (Editor), Rob Chapman (Illustrator)
Either creeping through the landscape or mounted in armoured cars and Bren carriers, Reconnaissance Regiments became a vital addition to all British infantry divisions. Their spearhead role meant that they were consistently at the forefront of all dramatic action, and most famously served with the 1st and 6th Airborne at Arnhem and with the ...
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Not One Step Back
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Martin Windrow
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American Frontier Lawmen 1850-1930
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Charles M Robinson, III, Martin Windrow (Editor), Richard Hook (Illustrator)
In the 1840s, gold had officially been discovered in California, and many men made their way out West in search of riches. The early mining camps were dangerous places full of violence and crime. Law and order was needed, and the Vigilante Committee became the first organized deliverer of justice in these turbulent new towns. As more and more ...
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Dictionary Military Biography(tr)
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Martin Windrow, Francis K Mason
This dictionary outlines the biographical details and often brutal careers of the 200 most outstanding land commanders from the 10th to the 20th centuries. Lesser-known pioneers of particular methods of soldiering are included, along with great military theorists such as Karl von Clausewitz and Captian Sir Basil Liddell-Hart. Wherever possible the ...
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African American Troops in World War II
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Alexander M Bielakowski, Martin Windrow (Editor), Raffaele Ruggeri (Illustrator)
Although African Americans had to strive against prejudice for every chance to show what they could achieve, in fact the wartime US Army conceded opportunities for leadership unparalleled in American civil society at that date and tens of thousands of African Americans contributed to the war effort. Fully illustrated with poignant photographs and ...
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French Foreign Legion Infantry and Cavalry Since 1945
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Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell (Illustrator)
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 ...
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Air facts and feats: a record of aerospace achievement
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Francis K. Mason, Martin Windrow
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