Douglas Porch

Auteur van The French Foreign Legion

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Douglas Porch is a military historian and the author of seven books, He is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California

Fotografie: Naval Postgraduate School

Werken van Douglas Porch

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The French Foreign Legion (1991) 270 exemplaren

The Path to Victory : The Mediterranean Theater in World War II (2004) 235 exemplaren

Wars of Empire (2000) 146 exemplaren

The Conquest of the Sahara (1984) 111 exemplaren

The Conquest of Morocco (1983) 110 exemplaren

The French Secret Services (1995) 63 exemplaren

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (2013) 30 exemplaren

Hitler’s Mediterranean Gamble (2004) 24 exemplaren

Defeat and Division: France at War, 1939–1942 (Armies of the Second World War) (2022) 18 exemplaren

The March to the Marne (1981) 14 exemplaren

The Portuguese armed forces and the revolution (Hoover Institution publication ; 188) (1977) 7 exemplaren

Les Guerres des empires britannique, français, ottoman et russe (2002) 2 exemplaren

Army and revolution : France 1815-1848 (1974) 2 exemplaren

La Légion étrangère (1831-1962) (1991) — Auteur — 2 exemplaren

'To the bitter end' in TLS 5311, 14 Jan 2005 [review of Hastings' 'Armageddon: the battle for Germany 1944-5'] 1 exemplaar

Atlas des guerres des empires britannique, franais, ottoman et russe 1 exemplaar

Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945 (Armies of the Second World War) (2024) 1 exemplaar

El camino hacia la victoria : la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Mediterráneo (2019) 1 exemplaar

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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2002 (2002) — Author "World War II's Indecipherable Ally" — 7 exemplaren

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Panzer - Volumen 2 (1941) : De África a Barbarroja (Desperta Ferro Especiales XVI) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren

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Algemene kennis

Geboortedatum: 1944
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Opleiding: University of the South (BA)
Organisaties: Center for Comtemporary Conflict (professor)

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Wars of Empire (Cassell History of Warfare) door Douglas Porch

Eigenlijk had niemand zin in het stichten van wereldrijken, is de wat betwistbare stelling van Porch. Alleen de militairen.
Hadden die zich eenmaal gevestigd, dan kon men niet meer terug. Lees verder....

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