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

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

Martin Windrow

752 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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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 deta...

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