An interesting read

[SeaCat]

I'm reading a book called "Legionare".

It's about an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion in the early sixties. Truly an interesting read and an interesting view into the mid set of a foreign military.

Cat

 

[Weird Harold]

I'm reading a book called "Legionare".

It's about an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion in the early sixties. Truly an interesting read and an interesting view into the mid set of a foreign military.

Cat

Who is the author?

Apparently the main library system here doesn't have a copy, but it sounds like an interesting look at an ineteresting period of history.

The library does have Legion of the lost : the true experience of an American in the French Foreign Legion / Jaime Salazar (c) 2005 which I think covers the same general time frame.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'm reading a book called "Legionare".

It's about an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion in the early sixties. Truly an interesting read and an interesting view into the mid set of a foreign military.

Cat

I remember that. Never read it, but there was a TV special that he hosted on the the FFL back then. Today, I understand that most members are unemployed Frenchmen but anyone who wants to can still join. It is, I think, the only army in the world with official brothels.

 

[trysail]

If the book deals with Algeria, it's going to make for very, very depressing reading— right up there with the Rape of Nanking, the Belgian rule of the Congo and the Spanish invasion of MezoAmerica.

The Froggies waged a singularly nasty war there.

Why just this morning I was listening to NPR's description of the truly lovely, ingenious and creative ways Sunni and Shia employed hand drills to brighten the day for their countrymen— it made me recollect the "necklaces" employed by the ANC and friends in South Africa.

Every now and then, homo sapiens can be the most vile and bloodthirsty species you'd ever want to encounter. Velociraptors might be preferable— at least you know how they're going to behave.

 

[SeaCat]

Who is the author?

Apparently the main library system here doesn't have a copy, but it sounds like an interesting look at an ineteresting period of history.

The library does have Legion of the lost : the true experience of an American in the French Foreign Legion / Jaime Salazar (c) 2005 which I think covers the same general time frame.

The book is written by Simon Murray.

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The book is written by Simon Murray.

Cat

That's the guy. He wrote two books about his experiences in the Legion.