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| Physikalisches Format | Online version: Bimberg, Edward L., 1919- Tricolor over the Sahara. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002 (OCoLC)604330896 |
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| Medientyp: | Internetquelle |
| Dokumenttyp: | Buch, Internet-Ressource |
| Alle Autoren: |
Edward L Bimberg |
| ISBN: | 0313316546 9780313316548 |
| OCLC-Nummer: | 47658854 |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 134 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Inhalt: | Introduction; Glossary; The Desert Before; The Stirrings of War; Combat--Mourzouk and Koufra; The Ghost Raiders; Enter, the Legion; The Western Desert; Looking Back; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. |
| Serientitel: | Contributions in military studies, no. 217. |
| Verfasserangabe: | Edward L. Bimberg. |
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"Bimberg provides a spirited, racy acount of the French soldiers who from July 1940 opted to follow de Gaulle in "Free France..,." The work is useful for two main reasons. The first is simply a needed reminder that, before November 1942, there had been Frenchmen who from the outset rejected the Vichy regime and all that it stood for, and were prepared to fight on. The second is the excellent descriptions Bimberg offers of fighting a desert war on a shoestring, with all the difficulties of equipment shortage, health, climate, and ground.... Bimberg's sources are mostly English language and secondary but they serve well his presentation of adventurous patriotic Frenchmen, fighting far from home for the recovery not only of their homeland but for them even more important, their country's honour."-The Journal of Military History Weiterlesen…
