In this book Martin Windrow describes desert battles and famous last stands in gripping detail - but he also shows exactly what the Foreign Legion were doing in North Africa in the first place.
Author: Martin Windrow
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0297858416
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sation is just as essential as when pursuing Who is our Brother and our Friend ,
Sea ... and grown grey Why Aldebaran's star is ruddy , And mirrors every star ,
Beneath thy smitings , and thy wrathful tide Or colder ... Yet much know that the
sea is vast in its proportions And graving , “ Hitherto ” upon the sand , may be
done by conscientious parents and beyond the comprehension of finite man to
Bade thy ...
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By the time the story was ended the boat was at the side of the steamer , and our
friends were speedily on board . In a little while the ... The Sand Heads are banks
of sand beneath the water , and the brig marks their locality . At the brig the ...
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By the time the story was ended the boat was at the side of the steamer , and our
friends were speedily on board . In a little while the ... The Sand Ileads are banks
of sand beneath the water , and the brig marks their locality . At the brig the ...
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Vigorous as appear the leaps of this place . little creature , yet it soon tires : and if
desirous of We knew that our friend's remarks were not ... Scarcely a cubic foot of
sand can be railway catastrophe ; we therefore waited his fur- turned over without
disturbing some scores of ... you don't mean to say that lions , beneath the
incoming tiny waves ; our friend , howtigers , and wolves are fighting near here ?
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... where pursuit is fruitless . Our friends are careful not to allow us to straggle
about or lag behind ; and yet it seems ... I see many wrecks of ships along this
shore , and here are two not yet buried beneath the sand . They have been cast
away ...
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... pursuit is fruitless . Our friends are careful not to allow us to straggle about or
lag behind ; and yet it seems absurd to fear a surprise here - Khaifa before , Acre
... here are two not yet buried wrecks . beneath the sand . They have been cast ...
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The sand happened to be called the Oven , and we had long to endure the kind
enquiries of our friends , who hoped we were not injured by our twelve hours
baking , while some , even with a spice of vulgarity , suggested that we were
baked long enough to be done brown . To diminish the risk to ... Beneath the
lantern are stores for the oil , cotton , & c . , and rooms for the keepers . On board
the floating ...
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presented itself in a certain widely - known firm of call my attention to the
circumstance that there civil engineers , of which ... and leave the château ,
where her visit had already been pursuing the smoothly rolled path beneath the a
long one . ... in which she taxed me with forgetfulness of my uttering my name
made me start , and turning my friends at Ak - Volotchna ... traced lines with the
ivory ferule of her Handsome as the Countess Pauline Lewinski parasol in the
smooth sand at her ...
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I could discover no signs of my friends , and felt convinced “ Without further
warning the hurricane burst with fear that they had succeeded in making their
escape , which conful violence , hurling showers of sand into my face , forcing
viction eventually proved true . me to lie ... while my head was “ I was in no
condition to spend much time in searching thrust beneath one of his paws in
order to breathe some ...
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Inshore the fishermen are basy with their drift Holborn Restaurant , or any of the
great feeding - places of the nets and ... as you may have been accustomed to on
Ramsgate Sands , recommend any of our friends who purpose having a look at ...
There was a and lasses at Cleethorpes , Bridlington , and elsewhere hugging
each gentle ripple on the water , and beneath the faoding breeze pleasure other
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There are some people blocking our way . And they don ' t look very happy ! Don '
t worry , my friends . They are the Doowahdiddi people . They live near here . I
talk to them . Mickey Goofy Ben Mickey Goofy and I got pretty nervous while we ...
Author: Walt Disney
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Off at off - push off , there ! our right the yellow sand fat lay in the Cap sprang to
the wheel as he spoke ; silver waters ... and pushed into gradually growing
smaller , slowly sinking deeper water ; I ran forward to grapple away , soon to
disappear beneath the sur our moorings . ... A command came from Cap Ben-
where I bade my friends good night , and , son's lips , and his voice sounded like
a with strange ...
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... growing smaller , slowly sinking deeper water ; I ran forward to grapple away ,
soon to disappear beneath the sur our moorings . ... A command came from Cap
Ben- where I bade my friends good night , and , son's lips , and his voice
sounded like a with strange ... not , believe , as nearly every person with Without
taking my eyes from the sands whom I conversed did , that it was an exon which
we were ...
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With an Account of Their Ancestor Anne Askew, the Martyr : a Portraiture of
Religious and Family Life in the 17th Century Maria Webb ... as once more she
emerged from her gloomy castle prison to cross over the sands of the Bay to her
own dear home . “ For at that hour the very earth seemed changed beneath her
eye , A holy beauty rising up , to the blue vault of the sky ; A lovely light on rock
and hill ...
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There is a family of Infusoria closely allied to the Vorticellæ in their form and
habits , but distinguished by the absence of a stalk ... the boulder clay of Chester
for Foraminifera without success , until in September of that year my friend , Mr . J
. B . Manning ... We did so , and , on placing the sand beneath the microscope ,
were rewarded with the sight of several shells of the Foraminifer - Polystomella
crispa .
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We acquiesce , in our usual " A sanded floor , which grits beneath the tread ; "
bland style , and the driver is encouraged to ask whether ... We prefer sible
cellars , but we do not know a country drayman . them generally to hotels : we like
the sand and the We fraternise ... and beg to say that if you read thing we venture
to remark being that , if our friend those words quickly , an old joke will be
discovered .
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I wanted to go on sweeping away some more sand , but my learned colleagues
were blowing the car ' s hooter – time to drive on . ... closer look with no other item
on the agenda than to find out whether more marks or finds might be buried
beneath the dune sand . I actually managed to persuade my friends Klaus Ahlert
and ...
Author: Beatrice Sandelowsky
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of the First Man ' s corpse , is our own death in the gathering shadows : ( The
stage is in darkness . ... in his production of Romeo and Juliet , has shocked and
scandalized the public ' My friends and I opened up the tunnel beneath the sand .
Author: Gwynne Edwards
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I wish it were more satisfac- my greensand most thoroughly to the test when a
ticles that they have to encounter in this particular tory ... sand , and avoid it
accordingly , I believe there see , there is a complete absence of nitrogenous
mains quite moist a little beneath the surface . ... and from a chemical point of
view soils it is an absolute impossibility for them to do door ; but some of my
friends are trying it ...
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