Table of Contents

Introduction · The Old Legion · Spain and the Carlist War, 1835-8 · Algeria, 1837-54 · The Crimea, 1854-6 · The Reduction of Kabylia · Italy, 1859 · Mexico, 1863-7 · France and Algeria, 1867-82 · Indo-China, 1883-95 · Dahomey and the Sudan, 1892 · Madagascar, 1895 · North Africa, 1890-1914 · The First World War · Africa, 1918-39 · Syria · The Second World War · Indo-China, 1941-54 · Algeria · The Legion Today · Colour plate commentary

About the Author

Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the very successful Men-at-Arms 300: French Foreign Legion since 1945, Men-at-Arms 322: The French War in Indochina 1946-54 and the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004). Michael Roffe is a talented painter of military subjects who has illustrated many books for Osprey over the years. His artistic talents span a variety of historical periods; he has illustrated titles relating to the Boer War, the English Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars and the American War for Independence.