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Martin Windrow

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Martin Windrow


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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.

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French Foreign Legion Parat...

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The Panzer Divisions

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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

“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

“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

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