Douglas Porch
Birth date: December 29, 1944
Douglas Porch's Books
It is always nice when you can combine professional reading with a personal interest. I didn’t know when I bought [b:Counterinsurgency In Modern Warfare|3095583|Counterinsurgency In Modern Warfare |Daniel Marston|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320408520s/3095583.jpg|3126727], I would need it for rese...
The Conquest of the Sahara gets 3 stars but a strong recommendation nevertheless. I did not know how central the French were in taking the Sahara. I had only thought of them as significant in Algeria but they were everywhere. Porch tells a tale of some very strange and eccentric figures who launch o...