Author: Zinovi Pechkoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845741280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
No military unit - not even the SAS - has been more glamourised, fictionalised, or been the subject of more myth-making than the French Foreign Legion. But despite the hype, quality first-hand accounts of life in the ranks of France s cosmopolitan elite colonial force are relatively rare. This is one of the finest of that select group. It is the work of the adopted son of the famous Russian writer Maxim Gorki. Pechkoff served in the Legion during the Great War, and later in North Africa. He was on peacekeeping duties in Algeria, and fought in the Rif Wars of the 1920s against the forces of the great tribal guerilla leader Abd-el-Krim. This memoir is based on the author s diaries, and was written while he was recovering from wounds in a hospital in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. Pechkoff gives vivid accounts of his rough, tough Legion comrades, and of fierce military action. He was one of a special Group Mobile assigned to relieving Legion outposts besieged by the Rif rebels, and his accounts of the fighting pays tribute to the heroism of both sides. A first-class military memoir which gives the truth behind the romantic Beau Geste image, this book has a foreword by the famous French writer Andre Maurois, a map of Morocco, the music for the legion s anthem Marche de la Legion Etrangere , a frontispiece drawing of a Legionairre, and an appendix giving a brief history of the Legion from its foundation in 1831. A must-have book for all lovers of the Legion and its literature, and for all students of desert and guerilla warfare.
Bugle Sounds: Life in the Foreign Legion (1927)
Author: Zinovi Pechkoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845741280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
No military unit - not even the SAS - has been more glamourised, fictionalised, or been the subject of more myth-making than the French Foreign Legion. But despite the hype, quality first-hand accounts of life in the ranks of France s cosmopolitan elite colonial force are relatively rare. This is one of the finest of that select group. It is the work of the adopted son of the famous Russian writer Maxim Gorki. Pechkoff served in the Legion during the Great War, and later in North Africa. He was on peacekeeping duties in Algeria, and fought in the Rif Wars of the 1920s against the forces of the great tribal guerilla leader Abd-el-Krim. This memoir is based on the author s diaries, and was written while he was recovering from wounds in a hospital in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. Pechkoff gives vivid accounts of his rough, tough Legion comrades, and of fierce military action. He was one of a special Group Mobile assigned to relieving Legion outposts besieged by the Rif rebels, and his accounts of the fighting pays tribute to the heroism of both sides. A first-class military memoir which gives the truth behind the romantic Beau Geste image, this book has a foreword by the famous French writer Andre Maurois, a map of Morocco, the music for the legion s anthem Marche de la Legion Etrangere , a frontispiece drawing of a Legionairre, and an appendix giving a brief history of the Legion from its foundation in 1831. A must-have book for all lovers of the Legion and its literature, and for all students of desert and guerilla warfare.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845741280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
No military unit - not even the SAS - has been more glamourised, fictionalised, or been the subject of more myth-making than the French Foreign Legion. But despite the hype, quality first-hand accounts of life in the ranks of France s cosmopolitan elite colonial force are relatively rare. This is one of the finest of that select group. It is the work of the adopted son of the famous Russian writer Maxim Gorki. Pechkoff served in the Legion during the Great War, and later in North Africa. He was on peacekeeping duties in Algeria, and fought in the Rif Wars of the 1920s against the forces of the great tribal guerilla leader Abd-el-Krim. This memoir is based on the author s diaries, and was written while he was recovering from wounds in a hospital in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. Pechkoff gives vivid accounts of his rough, tough Legion comrades, and of fierce military action. He was one of a special Group Mobile assigned to relieving Legion outposts besieged by the Rif rebels, and his accounts of the fighting pays tribute to the heroism of both sides. A first-class military memoir which gives the truth behind the romantic Beau Geste image, this book has a foreword by the famous French writer Andre Maurois, a map of Morocco, the music for the legion s anthem Marche de la Legion Etrangere , a frontispiece drawing of a Legionairre, and an appendix giving a brief history of the Legion from its foundation in 1831. A must-have book for all lovers of the Legion and its literature, and for all students of desert and guerilla warfare.
The Bugle Sounds
Author: Zinovi Pechkoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Dad Made Dirty Movies
Author: Jordan Todorov
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147666868X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Strippers, zombies, fugitives and jewel thieves. These were just some of the characters who inhabited the weird, wild films of director Stephen C. Apostolof in the 1960s and 1970s. But Apostolof's own life was every bit as improbable as the plots of his lurid movies. Escaping the clutches of the communists in his native Bulgaria, he came to America in 1952 and decided on a whim to reinvent himself as a Hollywood filmmaker, right down to the cigars, sunglasses and Cadillacs. He produced a string of memorable sexploitation classics, including the infamous Orgy of the Dead. Along the way, he married three times, fathered five children and forged a personal and professional relationship with the notorious Ed Wood, Jr. Drawing on rare archival material and interviews with those who knew him best, this first biography of Apostolof chronicles the life and career of a cult film legend.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147666868X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Strippers, zombies, fugitives and jewel thieves. These were just some of the characters who inhabited the weird, wild films of director Stephen C. Apostolof in the 1960s and 1970s. But Apostolof's own life was every bit as improbable as the plots of his lurid movies. Escaping the clutches of the communists in his native Bulgaria, he came to America in 1952 and decided on a whim to reinvent himself as a Hollywood filmmaker, right down to the cigars, sunglasses and Cadillacs. He produced a string of memorable sexploitation classics, including the infamous Orgy of the Dead. Along the way, he married three times, fathered five children and forged a personal and professional relationship with the notorious Ed Wood, Jr. Drawing on rare archival material and interviews with those who knew him best, this first biography of Apostolof chronicles the life and career of a cult film legend.
Library Record
Author: Free Public Library of Jersey City
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Books of 1926(-1928). Cumulated from the Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: CHICAGO. Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Military Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Bulletin (1901-195 )
Author: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description