Our Friends Beneath the Sands

[Chad]

Just reading the above, subtitled 'The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935'.

Excellent read and the early war in Indochina (Tonkin) offers great skirmish possibilities, as well as the Moroccan campaings.

Chad

[goat major]

was looking at this in waterstones the other day - looks very good. The photographs alone are excellent

[JohntheRed]

Hi

Read earlier this year.  Would recommend to anyone interested in the North Africa colonial campaigns and Rif wars in particular.

Story of the foreign legion from 1870 – 1930s, the heyday of French colonialism.  Its focussed on the Legions role in the campaigns rather than the Legion itself.  Covering wars in Dahomney, Vietnam, Madagascar, Algeria and Morocco. Some of the coverage in Morocco is a little repetitive but still brings out the scale of operations, high losses and stubborn resistance of the Berber tribes. Rif war covered as well.  Good.

I have too many other projects on the go to dabble but if this is your area,  then the book is defo one for you


cheers

[FierceKitty]

Why, oh why, didn't they get properly mixed up in the Sudan wars?