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The Moroccan Goums: Tribal Warriors in a Modern War (Contributions in Military Studies)

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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Bimberg provides a military history of the Moroccan Goums, the knife-wielding irregular troops who distinguished themselves, fighting under French command in Tunisia, Italy, France and Germany during World War II. Recruited from the hill tribes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains, the Goums were garbed throughout the war in the traditional "djellaba" of their homeland and were armed with long sharp knives, in addition to rifles, machine-guns and mortars. They terrified the enemy not only by their ferocity, but by their odd appearance. Their particular skill in mountain warfare prompted General Patton to request their participation in his Sicilian campaign, and they fought brilliantly in this and many other key campaigns. This account follows these forces from their native North African mountains across the battlefields of World War II to their final triumph in the Austrian Alps. It recounts their tactics and their strange traditions, as remarkable "Beau Geste" type French officers led them into battle. In Italy, 12,000 strong, they swarmed over the forbidding Aurunci range, which no one thought could possibly be penetrated by any sizable force under combat conditions, to spearhead the French forces in turning the German flank in Operation Diadem, the final drive on Rome. Their later exploits in the capture of Marseilles, in the Vosges Mountains, and on the drive to the Rhine were equally sensational.


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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.541244
EAN: 9780313309137
ISBN: 0313309132
Label: Greenwood Press
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 1999-07-30
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Studio: Greenwood Press


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Summary: Comprehensive and easy to read
Comment: The Goumiers and their units (called GMTs, "Tabors" and "Goums") is a very interesting chapter of the Second World War, not only for their colourful appearance but also because they took part in some of the most brutal battles and helped decisively in their outcome. Most people know the Goumiers from their action in the final Cassino battle, in May 1944, but as Edward Bimberg says in his book they served also in many other engagements in Tunisia, Sicily, Corsica, Elba Island, Provence, Alsace and Germany. The book is recommended for anyone seriously interested in the subject but although it contains an order of battle of the various "Goums" in the Appendices it doesn't have a single map, so a good background in World War II history is required. It contains also only three black and white photos.

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