Martin Windrow notes that: Some 130 of the Legion parachute battalion out of the 500 that had jumped emerged from this breakthrough fight ; they had only escaped by clambering down lianas shrouding a 75 ft cliff with their wounded tied on their backs.

Windrow, Martin: The Last Valley, 2004

* Windrow, Martin The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam.

* The Algerian War 1954 – 62: Martin Windrow ISBN 1-85532-658-2

Historian Martin Windrow wrote that " in summer ' 44 Dirlewanger led his 4, 000 butchers, rapists and looters into action against the Warsaw Uprising, and quickly committed ... unspeakable crimes.

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In a recently published history ( 2010 ) the military writer Martin Windrow examines in detail the evidence for and against Wren's service with the Foreign Legion before concluding that in the absence of some further documentary discovery the question is an insoluble one.

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Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England.

In 1986, Gauntlett negotiated the return of fictional British secret agent James Bond to Aston Martin.

The scheme was first published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976, although it was later alleged that it had been separately invented a few years earlier within GCHQ, the British signals intelligence agency, by Malcolm J. Williamson but was kept classified.

Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.

* 2001 – Martin Wright, British bioengineer ( b. 1912 )

Martin Coles Harman, owner of the British island of Lundy in the early decades of the 20th century, declared himself King and issued private coinage and postage stamps for local use.

* 1961 – Martin Clunes, British actor

Bolstered by an image overhaul — including bleached-blonde hair, frosted lips, heavy eye make-up and Carnaby Street fashions — Sinatra made her mark on the American ( and British ) music scene in early 1966 with " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '", its title inspired by a line in Robert Aldrich's 1963 western comedy 4 for Texas starring her father and Dean Martin.

* 1938 – Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician

In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.

* 1936 – Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian

* 1961 – Martin Kemp, British musician ( Spandau Ballet ) and actor

* 1874 – Martin Lowry, British chemist ( d. 1936 )

* 1969 – Giles Martin, British record producer

* Martin Dillon, 25 Years of Terror – the IRA's War against the British

* Pinter & Martin, Stanley Milgram's British publishers

* Martin Stanford, British TV presenter

The only British marques currently using a V12 configuration are Aston Martin — whose Cosworth-developed engine was authorized during the company's ownership by Ford Motor Company — and Rolls-Royce.

** Chris Martin, British rock musician ( Coldplay )

* September 14 – Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster

** Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster ( b. 1947 )

* April 19 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( b. 1856 )

* October 5 – Martin Ennals, British human rights activist.

* November 22 – Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer ( b. 1535 )

* April 12 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

The results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, " Instead of Kinsey's 37 % ( men who had at least one homosexual experience ), Gebhard and Johnson came up with 36. 4 %; the 10 % figure ( men who were " more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55 "), with prison inmates excluded, came to 9. 9 % for white, college-educated males and 12. 7 % for those with less education.

Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian.

On War is a work rooted solely in the world of the nation state, says historian Martin Van Creveld, who alleges that Clausewitz takes the state " almost for granted " as he rarely looks at anything previous to Westphalia.

* May 3 – Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian ( b. 1720 )

Military historian Robert W. Martin considers Tours " one of the most decisive battles in all of history.

* Martin Kemp, Art historian

Other historians, such as the German historian Wolfgang Michalka, the Anglo-German historian H. W Koch and the Israeli historian Martin van Creveld, have contended that Hitler's efforts to form an anti-British Eurasian " continental bloc " that was to include the Soviet Union in late 1940 as a diplomatic prelude to the " Mediterranean plan " were sincere, that until December 1940 Hitler's first priority was in defeating Britain, and that it was only when Hitler gave his approval to Operation Barbarossa that he finally lost interest in the " Mediterranean strategy ".

Martin Grove Brumbaugh — a Brethren minister and historian who became Governor of Pennsylvania in 1915 — played a leading role in disseminating a more progressive vision of Brethren history.

The British historian Martin Gilbert believes that “ many non-Jews resented the round up ”, his opinion being supported by German witness Dr. Arthur Flehinger who recalls seeing “ people crying while watching from behind their curtains ”.

Current and former Tufts faculty include former American Psychological Association president Robert Sternberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosopher Daniel Dennett, Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack ( 1924 – 1998 ), regular featured columnist in Foreign Policy Magazine Daniel W. Drezner, radio host Lonnie Carton and author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman.

* J. Martin Klotsche, educator and historian

The present Master is historian Professor Martin Daunton.

* Martin P. Nilsson ( 1874 – 1967 ), a Swedish philologist and historian of religion

Soon after forming, the DOB wrote a mission statement that addressed the most significant problem Martin and Lyon had faced as a couple: the complete lack of information about female homosexuality in what historian Martin Meeker termed, " the most fundamental journey a lesbian has to make.

However, the impact of the fourteen-year run of the DOB on the lives of women was described by historian Martin Meeker: " The DOB succeeded in linking hundreds of lesbians across the country with one another and gathering them into a distinctly modern communication network that was mediated through print and, consequently, imagination, rather than sight, sound, smell, and touch.

Martin Levi van Creveld ( born 5 March 1946 ) is an Israeli military historian and theorist.

During the 1850s, X-bracing was used by several makers, all German immigrants who knew each other, and according to historian Philip Gura there is no evidence that C. F. Martin invented the system.

The first was Sir Martin Conway, a noted art historian, mountaineer and explorer.

Johann Martin Lappenberg ( July 30, 1794-November 28, 1865 ), was a German historian.

* Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill and twentieth century historian

Tyrone Gabriel Martin is a retired United States Navy Commander, and a naval historian, most notable as an authority on the USS Constitution (" Old Ironsides "), of which he was the 58th Commanding Officer.