Martin C. Windrow is a British

United Kingdom

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 historian

Historian

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, editor and author

Author

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 of several hundred books, articles and monograph

Monograph

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s, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war

World War II

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 French Foreign Legion

French Foreign Legion

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. His most notable works include The Last Valley, an account of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that...

 during the First Indochina War

First Indochina War

The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East...

, which was published in 2004 to "critical acclaim", and Our Friends beneath the Sands published in 2010.

Biography

Windrow is a graduate of Wellington College, and began working on commission as an editor of articles on military and aviation history in the 1970s. He is an Associate of the Royal Historical Society

Royal Historical Society

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and the Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain.

Works

• Rommel's Desert Army, 1976.
• The Waffen-SS, 1984.
• Inside the Soviet Army Today, 1987.
• French Foreign Legion, 1996.
• The Algerian War, 1954-62 1997.
• Military Dress of the Peninsular War, 1808-14, 1998.
• The French Indochina War 1946–54, 1998.
• French Foreign Legion, 1914-45, 1999.
• The World's Greatest Military Leaders, 2000.
• Warriors and Warlords: The Art of Angus McBride, 2002.
• The Last Valley, 2004.
• Not One Step Back, 2009.
• Our Friends Beneath the Sands, 2010.

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