Introduction The Desert Before The Stirrings of War Combat--Mourzouk and Koufra The Ghost Raiders On to Tunis Enter, the Legion The Western Desert Looking Back Epilogue Appendix: Uniforms Glossary Selected Bibliography Index
Edward L. Bimberg is an independent researcher. He entered Federal service with the National Guard cavalry regiment just prior to World War II. Five years later, after serving overseas in North Africa, Corsica, and Italy, he returned to civilian life, working as an advertising copywriter and penning free-lance articles on military and equestrian subjects. For the past thirty years he has owned a series of riding schools in New Jersey, while continuing to pursue his writing. He is the author of The Moroccan Goums: Tribal Warriors in a Modern War (Greenwood, 1999).
.,."for those who wish to know more about a relatively unknown
aspect of World War II in the African desert (which deserves more
attention than it heretofore recieved in English) of the Free
French movement, the book is worthwhile, and libraries that deal
with the subject might well acquire it."-History: Review of New
Books
"Bimberg provides a spirited, racy acount of the French soldiers
who from July 1940 opted to follow de Gaulle in "Free France..,."
The work is useful for two main reasons. The first is simply a
needed reminder that, before November 1942, there had been
Frenchmen who from the outset rejected the Vichy regime and all
that it stood for, and were prepared to fight on. The second is the
excellent descriptions Bimberg offers of fighting a desert war on a
shoestring, with all the difficulties of equipment shortage,
health, climate, and ground.... Bimberg's sources are mostly
English language and secondary but they serve well his presentation
of adventurous patriotic Frenchmen, fighting far from home for the
recovery not only of their homeland but for them even more
important, their country's honour."-The Journal of Military
History
?...for those who wish to know more about a relatively unknown
aspect of World War II in the African desert (which deserves more
attention than it heretofore recieved in English) of the Free
French movement, the book is worthwhile, and libraries that deal
with the subject might well acquire it.?-History: Review of New
Books
?[i]f you enjoy an adventure and prefer the Vol de Nuit or Pilote
de Guerre of Antoine de Saint-Exupeery to his Petit Prince, then
read Bimberg.?-H-France Book Reviews
?Bimberg provides a spirited, racy acount of the French soldiers
who from July 1940 opted to follow de Gaulle in "Free France..,."
The work is useful for two main reasons. The first is simply a
needed reminder that, before November 1942, there had been
Frenchmen who from the outset rejected the Vichy regime and all
that it stood for, and were prepared to fight on. The second is the
excellent descriptions Bimberg offers of fighting a desert war on a
shoestring, with all the difficulties of equipment shortage,
health, climate, and ground.... Bimberg's sources are mostly
English language and secondary but they serve well his presentation
of adventurous patriotic Frenchmen, fighting far from home for the
recovery not only of their homeland but for them even more
important, their country's honour.?-The Journal of Military
History
?The book...is enriched by Bimberg's personal experience as a US
veteran of the North African campaign...it is certainly an
evocative tribute to the elan of the most renowned Free French and
colonial regiments of the Second World War.?-The International
History Review
"Ýi¨f you enjoy an adventure and prefer the Vol de Nuit or Pilote
de Guerre of Antoine de Saint-Exupeery to his Petit Prince, then
read Bimberg."-H-France Book Reviews
..."for those who wish to know more about a relatively unknown
aspect of World War II in the African desert (which deserves more
attention than it heretofore recieved in English) of the Free
French movement, the book is worthwhile, and libraries that deal
with the subject might well acquire it."-History: Review of New
Books
"[i]f you enjoy an adventure and prefer the Vol de Nuit or Pilote
de Guerre of Antoine de Saint-Exupeery to his Petit Prince, then
read Bimberg."-H-France Book Reviews
"The book...is enriched by Bimberg's personal experience as a US
veteran of the North African campaign...it is certainly an
evocative tribute to the elan of the most renowned Free French and
colonial regiments of the Second World War."-The International
History Review
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
