Training is so tough that five recruits out of six are rejected, never to wear the coveted white kepi. What attracts men from 136 different nations to embrace the harsh military code of an army that requires them to lay down their lives for a country not their own, if ordered to do so by politicians whose language many of them hardly speak?ĭouglas Boyd’s history of the Legion answers that question, with fifteen historic photographs and eleven battle/campaign maps.įounded in 1831 to fight France’s colonial wars without spilling French blood, this mysterious army is today a world-class fighting force.
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