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British Experiences in the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period
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Description
The creation of fictional films, novels and newspaper articles which pre-dated the British enlistment, these Foreign Legion myths - Barthet convincingly contends - bore little resemblance to reality. Yet this vision of Legion life was in fact so powerful that many of the so-called memoirs written by supposed British ex-legionnaires were actually novels disguised as autobiographies, a sort of subgenre of Victorian and Edwardian adventure novels written to appeal to the taste of the British public for French Foreign Legion stories at the time. The book reflects on what this blurring of the line between truth and fantasy can tell us about the British involvement in the French Foreign Legion.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
2026-01-22
Publication Date:
2026-01-22
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1350546593
ISBN13:
9781350546592
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Weight:
570 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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