The Centurions
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy. This is one I read a long time ago, but just noticed isn't on this list.
It came out in 1962. The main character is a French paratroop officer, coming out of Dien Bien Phu and a Viet Minh PW camp. He forms a new parachute unit and leads them into the Algerian War. It's a classic of "muddy-boots" soldiers cutting through staff BS to get to the enemy, and perhaps losing their morals.
Basis for the Anthony Quinn movie, The Lost Command.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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