... Osprey's 17th-century coverage, and the Elite series has benefited from contributions by such important researchers as Keith Roberts and John Tincey. However, Men-at-Arms can claim the credit for publishing four ground-breaking titles ...
... Crusade in 1099 the Europeans established 'Crusader states' in Palestine and Syria. Muslim disunity allowed these to survive for a century, until, in 1187, the great Kurdish general Salah al-Din led a multi-ethnic 'Saracen ... Angus McBride,
Osprey Men-at-Arms: A Celebration: Limited Edition
Beautifully presented in luxurious cloth, embossed and foil blocked, with head and tails bands and a ribbon bookmark, the collection contains the most treasured illustrations from the vast archives of this respected series and is a classic, ...
French Foreign Légionnaire vs Viet Minh Insurgent: North Vietnam 1948–52
... machine - gun fire . Assault parties were led by men with satchel charges , French view : The 7.5mm M1931A Reibel machine gun accepted the 150 - round drum magazine on either side , and was provided with a skeleton shoulder stock and a ...
... 5e & 17e BT (ZSA); 9e BT, 5e RS (ZOA). Constantine: 22e RT, 21e RS (ZNC); 7e RT (ZSC); ler & 8e RS (ZNEC); 3e RT, 11e & 14e BT, 6e RS (ZOC). From 1956 a new policy led to mixing of the races ... half Muslim, half colon composition; and most ...
... weapons in return; in December 1946 his three small squads held three light machine guns, four submachine guns and 25 rifles. Sometimes he linked up temporarily with other units, sometimes he played a lone hand ... two armoured cars of the 5e ...
French Foreign Legion: Infantry and Cavalry since 1945
... in the area, chasing down every contact. for however long it took – up to two months – to completely disperse any survivors in numbers so weak that local sector troops could then mop up. The Panhard EBR F11 - a 13 - ton ,
... gun; they had only one nearly useless 7.65mm MAS.38 machine pistol, four others having broken down in recent weeks – as had all four of the folding-butt 7.5mm MAS.36/CR.39 rifles ... weapons were 7.62mm Reibel M1931A fortress machine guns ,
... Panhard EBR-75 and EBR-90 heavy armoured cars and AMX-13 light tanks. The 2e Régiment Étranger Parachutiste has a base at Calvi in Corsica. Strong drafts have been on active service in the Republic of Tchad for nearly two years; the ...
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