French foreign legion (3 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1845
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
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In den WarenkorbRed Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First English Edition. With 176pp - early book on the subject - bound with 'History of the Fall of the Jesuits in the 18th Century'.
Weitere BilderDas Geheimnis der großen wüste auf den spuren des saharaforschers Gerhard Rohlfs [The secret of the great desert on the trail of the Sahara explorer Gerhard Rohlfs]
Rainer-K. Langner [Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (April 14, 1831 - June 2, 1896) was a German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer. He was born at Vegesack. There was much pressure on Rohlfs to be in the medicine field, and he eventually joined the French Foreign Legion in a medical capacity. Serving for some time as a personal physician to a Moroccan nobleman, he eventually set off on his own, exploring the oases of Morocco. It was on this trip that he was attacked and left for dead, his leg almost severed from his body. These injuries would keep him from returning to Europe for most of his life; the cold weather somehow aggravating them. After this trip, Rohlfs was the first European to cross Africa from Tripoli across the Sahara desert
Verlag: Published By S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt . 2004., 2004
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Fine. Publisher's original card wrap covers [softback] with map to the front cover and archive photographs to the rear. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. ISBN 9771433350. Contains printed pages of Arabic text with monochrome photographs to the centre. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 977143335…0 NORTH AFRICA [Sahara].
Weitere BilderVerlag: [Nha Trang: c.1951], 1951
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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In den WarenkorbA snapshot of life in the French Foreign Legion during the First Indochina War. The album shows the regiment on parade, aerial shots of gun emplacements, and the Col de Nuages (Hai Van Pass), which would see a fatal derailment in 1953. One of the photographs shows future prime minister Tran Van Huu inspecting troops alongside a…legion officer. This album contains many photographs of south Vietnam, including Nha Trang, Ai Nghia, Hoa My, Dong Phu, and Quang Nam. Some the prints are tourist photographs of local people or official studio photography of military parades, but the majority are more candid shots of soldiers and gun emplacements which seem to have been taken by the legionnaire. The opening leaves focus on the French Foreign Legion's Camerone Day celebrations on 30 April 1951, showing the regiment parading its colours and with the popular Pionniers unit in full dress. A number of the senior officers are identified on the reverse of the prints. "The 1st Battalion under Major Le Toulec left Africa and landed in Indochina in early 1949. It was stationed in Annam (present-day Central Vietnam), south of Tourene (now Da Nang). This city was about 300 miles (500 km) north of Nha Trang, the 2e REI HQ. The legionnaires were mainly tasked with maintaining order in the sector, as well as patrolling the main routes and keeping them safe and passable" (French Foreign Legion Information). There are some images taken in Port Said and Djibouti. In addition, five of the loosely inserted photographs are aerial shots of Tunisia, annotated in red with directions to Kalaa Djerda, Tajerouire, and Haïdra. Kalaa Djerda was an important French airfield prior to the Second World War and the German invasion of Tunisia. French Foreign Legion Information, "1st Battalion 2e REI in Vietnam's Faifo around 1950", 2025. Landscape quarto (235 x 345 mm). With 175 gelatin silver photographs, various sizes, landscape or portrait, most with deckle edges, mounted recto and verso on 20 tissue-guarded leaves, many inscribed in blue ink on verso, manuscript ink captions on a few leaves, 2 photographs printed on postcards with printer's blind stamp; 8 loosely inserted gelatin silver photographs (approximately 120 x 163 mm), landscape, 5 annotated in red ink, 2 inscribed on verso in blue ink; 3 loosely inserted folding colour maps, trimmed to size crossing neatlines (535 x 373 mm to 490 x 650 mm). Contemporary black lacquer souvenir album, tied with red and yellow cord through holes as issued, front board with metal hinges and lacquered with colour village design. Housed in a grey archival box. Photographs bright, a little toning and creasing as expected, album worn but holding, maps with some rubbing and closed tears along fold lines: a very good example.
