Legionnaire Five Years in the French Foreign Legion by Simon Murray

A pleasure to read and nearly impossible to put down. Army Times Embodies an experience that many have enjoyed in fantasyfew in reality. The Washington Post The French Foreign Legionmysterious romantic deadlyis filled with men of dubious character and hardly the place for a proper Englishman just nineteen years of age. Yet in 1960 Simon Murray traveled alone to Paris Marseilles and ultimately Algeria to fulfill the toughest contract of his life a fiveyear stint in the Legion. Along the way