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Martin Windrow
Occupation
Military historian and author
Language
English
Nationality
British
Subject
Military history, French history, Indochina, Algeria, French Foreign Legion, World War II
Notable works
The Last Valley (2004), Our Friends Beneath the Sands (2010)
Martin C. Windrow (born 1944) is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred[1] books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion.[1][2] His most notable works include The Last Valley, an account of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War, which was published in 2004 to "critical acclaim", and Our Friends beneath the Sands published in 2010.[2]
^ abWindrow, Martin The Last Valley, preface
^ abOsprey Publishing info page Archived 2006-10-21 at the Wayback Machine retrieved on March 10, 2007
Martin C. Windrow (born 1944) is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational...
587, Vol. 27 MartinWindrow (1981). Uniforms of the French Foreign Legion 1831–1981. Blandford. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7137-1010-6. MartinWindrow (1981). Uniforms...
brigade) and used in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. Author MartinWindrow wrote that "in summer '44 Dirlewanger led his 4,000 butchers, rapists...
UK. ISBN 1-85753-372-0. Windrow, Martin (2004). The Last Valley. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81386-6. Windrow, Martin (2013). The French Indochina...
Company, 1929 Wren, P. C. The Desert Heritage, Houghton-Mifflin, 1935 MartinWindrow, pages 622-627 Our Friends Beneath the Sands - The Foreign Legion in...
Paris on 29 July 1991. France portal Vietnam portal Biography portal MartinWindrow, 'The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam' Weidenfeld...
military tactician, Bigeard was called by the British military historian MartinWindrow the "intuitive master of terrain, who could conduct a battle by map...
patients, doctors, and nurses, before burning it down. British historian MartinWindrow described Dirlewanger's unit, which included the Azerbaijani legion...
Johnston, Mark (2007). The Australian Army in World War II. Elite. MartinWindrow (consultant editor). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-123-6...
Indo-China and Vietnam Wars, Blandford Press, London 1984. ASIN B001VO7QSI MartinWindrow and Mike Chappell, The French Indochina War 1946-54, Men-at-arms series...
scale that it even raised complaints within the brutal SS. Historian MartinWindrow described them as a "terrifying rabble" of "cut-throats, renegades,...
Indo-China and Vietnam Wars, Blandford Press, London 1984. ASIN: B001VO7QSI MartinWindrow and Mike Chappell, The French Indochina War 1946-54, Men-at-arms series...
ISBN 0-670-61964-7 Edgar O'Ballance, The Algerian Insurrection 1954–62, 1967 MartinWindrow, The Algerian War 1954–62 ISBN 1-85532-658-2 Fatima Besnaci-Lancou,...
the Azerbaijani Legion (part of the Ostlegionen). British historian MartinWindrow described Dirlewanger's unit as a "terrifying rabble" of "cut-throats...
at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on March 10, 2007 The Last Valley MartinWindrow, 2004 Phipps, Catherine (2023). "Between metropole and colony: Bordels...
Coc Xa gorge, where they were completely annihilated by 7 October. MartinWindrow notes that "Some 130 of the Legion parachute battalion out of the 500...
David S. Woolman, p. 133 Rebels in the Rif, Stanford University Press MartinWindrow, p. 15 "French Foreign Legion 1914–1945, ISBN 1-85532-761-9 The French...
: 138–9 The account of this "coup," however, is uncorroborated, and MartinWindrow, surveying the available primary sources, finds it more likely that...
Johnston, Mark (2007). The Australian Army in World War II. Elite. MartinWindrow (consultant editor). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-123-6...
Johnston, Mark (2007). The Australian Army in World War II. Elite. MartinWindrow (consultant editor). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-123-6...
while operations were taking place at Dien Bien Phu, however historian MartinWindrow argues this to be unjustified given the contrasting nature of the two...
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