Legionnaire; an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion
Simon Murray

An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion.

Simon Murray was nineteen when he joined the French Foreign Legion for five years. Inspired by the romantic myths of Beau Geste, he found himself in the ranks of one of the world’s 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 Murray’s personal account of a gently reared, well-educated British youth’s 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.