Häsler, Gerd "Non, je ne regrette rien...". "Nein, ich bereue nichts...". Zwei Brüder in der Fremdenlegion 1951-1961

Name: Häsler, Gerd: "Non, je ne regrette rien...". "Nein, ich bereue nichts...". Zwei Brüder in der Fremdenlegion 1951-1961
Brand: V|S - Verlag Scherzer
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German text, 132 photos, colour illustrations, 12 colour extracts from
contemporary 1:100,000 topographic maps of the operational areas. 232 pages.

Manufacturer: V|S - Verlag Scherzer
Manufacturer No.: 9783938845820

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Indochina (Dien Bien Phu) - Algeria. The author's father and also his uncle joined the Foreign Legion in 1950/51 because of the difficult economic conditions in post-war Germany. Both kept diaries, and the author's father also took photographs. All the records have been handed down, arranged, edited and annotated by the author and compiled into this impressive book.

Both knew that the other was also in the legion, but they only ran into each other briefly by chance years later, in the jungle fortress of Dien Bien Phu. The author's father survived the destruction of the French forces in the jungles of Tonkin, but did not know whether his brother had also escaped. After weeks, a cursory note from him arrived in an envelope at home in the Black Forest. In it he told the family that the Viet Minh assault on the base was imminent, that they had nothing more to oppose it with and that everyone who wanted to could send a last greeting to their loved ones. These last greetings were collected and flown out by a daring helicopter pilot shortly before the enemy set off on their final assault. The photos arrived in Germany in a similar manner from the Kessel and today constitute unique pictorial documents.

Group: Books (first-hand)
Author: Häsler, Gerd
Title: "Non, je ne regrette rien...". "Nein, ich bereue nichts...". Zwei Brüder in der Fremdenlegion 1951-1961
Details: German text, 132 photos, colour illustrations, 12 colour extracts from<br>contemporary 1:100,000 topographic maps of the operational areas. 232 pages.