Legionnaire: My five years in the French Foreign Legion

Legionnaire: My five years in the French Foreign Legion by Simon Murray. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780812907988.

Simon Murray was nineteen when he joined the French Foreign Legion. Inspired by the romantic myths of Beau Geste, he found himself in the ranks of one of the worlds greatest - and toughest - fighting forces. He kept a unique diary of the hard living, harsh discipline, and the military tradition of March or Die which he turned into this gripping book. "Simon Murrays personal account of a gently reared, well-educated British youths coming of age in the French Foreign Legion has the drama, excitement and colour of a good guts-and-glory thriller ...Murray is a talented storyteller, and his fellow legionnaires and their disciplined and proud Corps are vividly portrayed. I was hooked from the first page." - Dr Henry Kissinger. "One of the greatest adventure stories in recent years." - Chris Patten.