The Moroccan Goums: Tribal Warriors in a Modern War

by Edward L. Bimberg

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313309132
• ISBN13: 9780313309137
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"