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Dark covers with bright red decorations and gold lettering on front and spine. Inscribed by the autor on the FFE. Subtitled "Tribal Warriors in a Modern War" recounts the exploits of the Goums in World War II in Italy and France. Date: 1999. Greenwood Press ISBN 0313309132 9780313309137 [US]
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Greenwood Press 1999 First Edition Hardcover New with no dust jacket 0313309132. New copy, unmarked and unmarred by defects-save slight shelf wear to lower board edges only.
Greenwood Press. New with no dust jacket. Date: 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0313309132 . New copy, unmarked and unmarred by defects - save slight shelf wear to lower board edges only. . 1999. Greenwood Press ISBN 0313309132 9780313309137 [US]
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ABC-CLIO 1/30/1999 12: 07: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0313309132, ISBN13: 9780313309137, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Bimberg provides a military history of the Moroccan Goums, the knife-wielding irregular troops who distinguished themselves, fighting under French command in Tunisia, Italy, France and Germany during World War II. Recruited from the hill tribes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains, the Goums were garbed throughout the war in the traditional djellaba of their homeland and were armed with long sharp knives, in addition to rifles, machine-guns and mortars. They terrified the enemy not only by their ferocity, but by their odd appearance. Their particular skill in mountain warfare prompted General Patton to request their participation in his Sicilian campaign, and they fought brilliantly in this and many other key campaigns.This account follows these forces from their native North African mountains across the battlefields of World War II to their final triumph in the Austrian Alps. It recounts their tactics and their strange traditions, as remarkable Beau Geste type French officers led them into battle. In Italy, 12,000 strong, they swarmed over the forbidding Aurunci range, which no one thought could possibly be penetrated by any sizable force under combat conditions, to spearhead the French forces in turning the German flank in Operation Diadem, the final drive on Rome. Their later exploits in the capture of Marseilles, in the Vosg ...
ISBN10: 0313309132, ISBN13: 9780313309137, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Like New [Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
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