Division Leclerc: The Leclerc Column and Free French 2nd Armored Division, 1940–1946 (Elite, Book 226) by Merlin Robinson, Thomas Seignon
English | December 27th, 2018 | ISBN: 1472830075 | 64 pages | EPUB | 15.00 MB
General Leclerc' was the nom de guerre adopted by the Gaullist officer Philippe de Hautcloque, to protect his family in occupied France. He became France's foremost fighting commander, and his armored division (the '2e DB') its most famous formation. Starting as a small scratch force of mostly African troops organised and led by Leclerc in French Equatorial Africa, it achieved early success raiding Italian and German positions in co-operation with Britain's Long Range Desert Group.
