Alain Gandy (writer)

Alain Gandy (born September 29, 1924 in Paris as André Gandelin, † December 22, 2015 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French officer and writer .

Live and act

Gandy fought as a member of the Légion étrangère in World War II and was then also actively involved in the French colonial wars as such for a few years.

After his service, he began to continue writing, encouraged by his previous literary attempts. Over the years a small oeuvre of non-fiction books was created, in which he mainly dealt with the Foreign Legion. There were also some novels that were praised by the public as well as by official critics.

Honors

• 1985: Prix ​​Claude-Farrère for L'Escadron

Works (selection)

Fiction

• L'escadron Indochine 1948. Novel . Presses de la Cité, Paris 1984
• Le sang des colons. Novel . Presses de la Cité, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-258-02111-1 .
• Les frères. Novel . Presses de la Cité, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-258-04907-5 .
• Les chiens jaunes. Novel . Presses de la Cité, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-258-03143-5 .

Non-fiction

• Légion étrangère cavalerie . Presses de la Cité, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-258-06602-6 .
• Quand la Légion écrivait sa legend . Presses de la Cité, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-258-08011-9 .
• Battalion Bigeard à Tu Lê. La legend des paras . Presses de la Cité, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-258-07499-6 .
• Le jeunesse et la Resistance . Réseau Orion 1940–1944 . Françe Loisirs, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7242-7411-3 .
• La Legion en Indochine . 1885-1955 . Edited by Jean-Louis Festjens. Presses de la Cité, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-258-02127-8 .
• Salan . Perrin, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-262-00664-4 .
• La dernière rafale . Presses de la Cité, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-258-01625-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ obituary camps-parachutistes.org. Retrieved June 21, 2018 .