Martin Windrow is a series editor at Osprey and an authority on the French Foreign Legion. In 2004 his major study The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam was published to critical acclaim in Britain and the USA.Mike Chappell 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 has written and illustrated many books for Osprey.

• The Legion following the Franco-Prussian WarAlgeria 1871–83Tonkin (N.Vietnam): conquest 1882–85 – pacification 1886–1900Madagascar: conquest 1896 – pacification 1896–1900Algerian Desert 1890–1902Moroccan Intervention: Casablanca 1907–08 – Fes 1911–12 – Eastern High Plains 1908–12French Moroccan Protectorate 1912–14

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