Martin C. Windrow (born 1944) is a British

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, editor and

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of several hundredWindrow, Martin ''The Last Valley'', preface books, articles and

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s, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the

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retrieved on March 10, 2007 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.

Biography

Windrow was educated at

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, a boarding independent school in the village of Crowthorne in

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. He began working on commission as an editor of articles on military and aviation history in the 1970s. He is an Associate of the

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and the Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain.

Works

* ''Rommel's Desert Army'', 1976. * ''Tank and AFV Crew Uniforms Since 1916'', Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1979, . * ''The Waffen-SS'', Osprey Publishing, 1984. . * ''Inside the Soviet Army Today'', 1987. * ''French Foreign Legion''. Men-at-Arms-Series; Osprey Military No. 300. Osprey, London 1996, . * ''The Algerian War, 1954-62''. Men-at Arms-Series; Osprey Military No. 312. Osprey, London 1997, . * ''Military Dress of the Peninsular War, 1808-14'', 1998. * ''The French Indochina War 1946–54'', 1998. * ''French Foreign Legion, 1914-45'', 1999. * ''The World's Greatest Military Leaders'', 2000. * ''Warriors and Warlords: The Art of Angus McBride'', 2002. * ''The Last Valley'', 2004. * '' Not One Step Back'', 2009. * ''Our Friends Beneath the Sands'', 2010.Osprey Publishin
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retrieved on March 10, 2007 * ''The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar'', 2014.

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* 1944 births Living people British historians British military writers British military historians People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire {{UK-historian-stub