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EAN : 9782258092341
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Pages : 360
Size : 140 x 225 mm
The Centurions

Release date : 03/11/2011

A new edition of a war literature classic, first published in 1959 – one million copies sold - which known an amazing success with its film adaptation in 1966.

1955, French officers Raspéguy, Boisfeuras, Merle and Esclavier are returning home, after the Dien Bien Phu defeat. The war has changed...

A new edition of a war literature classic, first published in 1959 – one million copies sold - which known an amazing success with its film adaptation in 1966.

1955, French officers Raspéguy, Boisfeuras, Merle and Esclavier are returning home, after the Dien Bien Phu defeat. The war has changed them. They have witnessed the atrocious death of their friends, they have fallen in love, and under the spell of Asia. Can they go back to their formal lives, with their wives and children?
But they are called back to fight in Algeria, for the 10th Regiment of Colonial Paratroops. The Maghreb is nothing like Asia, except for one thing: the war. Another war, but for the same cause: independence…

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EAN : 9782258092341
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 360
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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