The Moroccan Goums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moroccan Goums write by Edward L. Bimberg. This book was released on 1999-07-30. The Moroccan Goums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bimberg provides a military history of the Moroccan Goums, the knife-wielding irregular troops who distinguished themselves, fighting under French command in Tunisia, Italy, France and Germany during World War II. Recruited from the hill tribes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains, the Goums were garbed throughout the war in the traditional djellaba of their homeland and were armed with long sharp knives, in addition to rifles, machine-guns and mortars. They terrified the enemy not only by their ferocity, but by their odd appearance. Their particular skill in mountain warfare prompted General Patton to request their participation in his Sicilian campaign, and they fought brilliantly in this and many other key campaigns. This account follows these forces from their native North African mountains across the battlefields of World War II to their final triumph in the Austrian Alps. It recounts their tactics and their strange traditions, as remarkable Beau Geste type French officers led them into battle. In Italy, 12,000 strong, they swarmed over the forbidding Aurunci range, which no one thought could possibly be penetrated by any sizable force under combat conditions, to spearhead the French forces in turning the German flank in Operation Diadem, the final drive on Rome. Their later exploits in the capture of Marseilles, in the Vosges Mountains, and on the drive to the Rhine were equally sensational.
Mountain Warriors
Mountain Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain Warriors write by Edward L. Bimberg. This book was released on 2008. Mountain Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vivid tales of the Goums in action. Recounts their tactics and traditions. Author served alongside the Goums during the war.
The War Against Germany and Italy
The War Against Germany and Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War Against Germany and Italy write by Kenneth E. Hunter. This book was released on 1951. The War Against Germany and Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco
Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco write by William A. Hoisington Jr. This book was released on 1995-08-11. Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco describes and analyzes the method of colonial conquest and rule linked to the name of Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934), France's first resident-general in Morocco and the most famous of France's 20th-century overseas soldier-administrators. Lyautey popularized the notions of 'peaceful penetration' and 'indirect rule' as part of a grand colonial design of military pacification, economic development, political modernization and social betterment. For Lyautey imperialism could be a life-giving force for both Frenchmen and Moroccans alike and during his thirteen years as resident general he boldly promoted France's actions in Morocco as the 'highest form' of imperialism. This book traces the development of Lyautey's ideas on conquest and rule at home and abroad, and shows how they translated into practice. While there was much that was praiseworthy in Lyautey's approach to colonial matters, in the end force always remained more effective than anything else and, whether used gently or severely, it failed to stem Moroccan resistance to French rule. Based on archival material in Morocco and France, Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco is the first book to deal in a detailed manner with French pacification strategy in Morocco and with the mechanics of 'indirect rule' (always, in reality, rather more direct than indirect). It should be of great value to readers of 19th and 20th century French, European and North African history and to students of colonialism and imperialism.
The French empire between the wars
The French empire between the wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The French empire between the wars write by Martin Thomas. This book was released on 2017-03-01. The French empire between the wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-war years as a discrete period of colonial change, this book addresses several larger issues, such as tracing the origins of decolonization in the rise of colonial nationalism, and a re-assessment of the impact of inter-war colonial rebellions in Africa, Syria and Indochina. The book also connects French theories of colonial governance to the lived experience of colonial rule in a period scarred by war and economic dislocation.
