Martin Windrow (Author of The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar)

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Martin Windrow

Born

in The United Kingdom

May 13, 1944

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History, Nonfiction, Military History

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Martin C. Windrow is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion. He has been published since the mid-Sixties.

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	The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar 3.66 avg rating — 1,019 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam 4.28 avg rating — 733 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 4.11 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The French Indochina War 1946-1954 (Men-At-Arms, 322) by Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Algerian War 1954鈥�62 (Men-at-Arms, 312) by Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Waffen-SS (Men at Arms Series, 34) (Men-at-Arms, 34) by Martin Windrow, Jeffrey Burn (Illustrator) 3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warriors & Warlords: The Art of Angus McBride by Martin Windrow, Angus McBride 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	French Foreign Legion Paratroops (Elite, 6) by Martin Windrow, Wayne Braby, Kevin Lyles (Illustrator) 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Panzer Divisions (Men-at-Arms, 24) 3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	French Foreign Legion 1914鈥�45 by Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For 56 days they had given everything, endured everything; they had achieved the impossible, not once but again and again. They deserved to win; and if they were now being robbed of victory, then the real thieves weren't the People's Army, the 'rats of the Nam Youm', or anyone else in the filth of this last valley, but men who slept between clean sheets far away.”
― Martin Windrow, The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

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“Unlike the huge majority of the current generation in the West, the men on both sides at Dien Bien Phu did not live at a time or in places where they enjoyed the luxury of disregarding [that war is what human beings do]; and we, who are lifelong civilians, have not earned the right to sit in judgement over them.”
― Martin Windrow, The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

tags: history, war

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“It is one of the central human tragedies that war is not an aberration-it is what human beings do.”
― Martin Windrow, The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

tags: human-nature, war

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