The Algerian War 1954-62

Informationen zum Autor Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French Army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004). MIKE CHAPPELL comes from an Aldershot family with British Army connections stretching back several generations. He enlisted as a teenage private in the Royal Hampshire Regiment in 1952 and retired in 1974, as RSM of the 1st Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers), after seeing service in Malaya, Cyprus, Swaziland, Libya, Germany, Ulster and home garrisons. He began painting military subjects in 1968 and has gained worldwide popularity as a military illustrator. Mike has written and illustrated many books for Osprey. Klappentext It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat; it destroyed thousands of careers; bitterly divided the French military and political classes for a generation; and sent hundreds of thousands of European settler families into often ruinous exile. This title details the history, organisation, equipment and uniforms of the forces involved. Zusammenfassung The technological might of France fought against a strong urban guerrilla movement during the Algerian war. Fighting for Algerian independence, the ALN used tactics ranging from assassination to the intimidation of natives to reach their goal, and they are described in this volume. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Background · Summary of Main Events · The Army of National Liberation · The French Army in Algeria · Select Bibliography · The States

Product details

• Authors: Mike Chappell, Martin Windrow
• Assisted by: Mike Chappell (Illustration), Chappell Mike (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781855326583
• ISBN: 978-1-85532-658-3
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 239 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Men-at-Arms; Men-At-Arms (Osprey); Men-at-Arms; Men-At-Arms (Osprey)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, HISTORY / Africa / North, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Warfare & defence, Terrorism, armed struggle, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Warfare and defence, c 1960 to c 1969, C 1945 To C 1960