Language English Nationality United Kingdom | Name Martin Windrow Role Historian | |
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Occupation Military historian and author Subject Military history, French history, Indochina, Algeria, French Foreign Legion, World War II Notable works The Last Valley (2004), Our Friends Beneath the Sands (2010) People also search for Angus McBride, Francis K. Mason, Frederick Wilkinson, John Franklin Books The Last Valley: Dien Bien, French Foreign Legion, Our Friends Beneath t, The Owl Who Liked Sitting on, The French Indochina War 1946 | ||
Martin C. Windrow (born 1944) 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. His most notable works include The Last Valley, an account of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War, which was published in 2004 to "critical acclaim", and Our Friends beneath the Sands published in 2010.
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Windrow was educated at Wellington College, a boarding independent school in the village of Crowthorne in Berkshire. He began working on commission as an editor of articles on military and aviation history in the 1970s. He is an Associate of the Royal Historical Society and the Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain.