French Foreign Legion Paratroops
Martin Windrow author Wayne Braby author Kevin Lyles illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:26th Sep '85
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The decision, in Spring 1948, to form two battalions of Foreign Legion paratroopers was prompted by the requirement for enlarged airborne forces in Indochina, and the healthy recruitment then employed by the Legion. There were some initial doubts. The Legion were known to be magnificent heavy infantry, but were felt by some to lack the flexibility and agility demanded by independent airborne operations. In the Legion itself there were some misgivings over the possible clash between the self-consciously exclusive 'para mentality', and the Legion's own very marked ésprit de corps. Over time, however, all these doubts evaporated with experience.
ISBN: 9780850456295
Dimensions: 248mm x 184mm x 7mm
Weight: 248g
64 pages