Osprey Men-at-Arms №461. Martin Windrow. French Foreign Legion 1872-1914

Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1849083263.This volume covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. Legion battalions fought in the deserts and mountains of southern Algeria and Morocco, as well as in the jungles of North Vietnam, West Africa and Madagascar.