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

By Martin Windrow

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0297852132
• ISBN13: 9780297852131
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"