Uniforms of the French Foreign Legion, 1831-1981

by Martin Windrow

Uniforms of the French Foreign Legion 1831-1981

Genres: History

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Martin C. Windrow is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion. He has been published since the mid-Sixties.

Reviews

[Filipe Amaral · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of Martin Windrow's masterpieces, this book is now a little dated with many other small contributions made by Windrow through the Men-at-Arms and Warrior series of Osprey Publishing, but a reader interested in the French Foreign Legion can still read this book with some profit. Martin Windrow is an expert in the subject and the artwork by Mike Chappell is amazing, with colorfull plates about the légionnaires uniforms and equipment. Those are presented with black and white photographs of said uniforms in museums or in the field, and also a miriad of drawings made in the period. The explanation of uniforms is also accompanied by the description of the Legion's battle record up to 1981.