Legionnaire
Five Years in the French Foreign Legion, the World's Toughest Army
$30.39
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2021
Summary
‘One of the greatest adventure stories in years.’ - Chris Patten ‘The drama, excitement and colour of a good guts-and-glory thriller.’ - Dr. Henry Kissinger
The French Foreign Legion - mysterious, romantic, deadly - is 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 on to Algeria to fulfill the toughest contract of his life: a five-year stint in the Legion.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529054354 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529054354 |
| Author: | Simon Murray |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A pleasure to read and nearly impossible to put down
A pleasure to read and nearly impossible to put down * Army Times *
One of the greatest adventure stories in recent years – Chris Patten
A fascinating account of life in the toughest soldiering outfit in the world * Sunday Mail *
Embodies an experience that many have enjoyed in fantasy, few in reality * The Washington Post *
The drama, excitement, and color of a good guts-and-glory thriller – Dr Henry Kissinger
His book is … perhaps the best book I remember reading - not just about the legion but about life – George Thaw, Daily Mirror
Simon Murray
Simon Murray CBE was born in Leicester in 1940 and joined the French Foreign Legion at age nineteen, serving in the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment for five years. He fought in the Algerian War against the Front de Liberation National and left the Legion in 1965. He subsequently moved to Hong Kong where he pursued a career as a businessman. In 2004, Murray joined Pen Hadow to trek to the South Pole and became the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported. He is married and has three children and six grandchildren. Legionnaire is his first book.
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