In the Foreign Legion

A proud European volunteer, stripped of rank and name, marches under a burning African sun, bound by silence and obedience. The Legion changes a man. In the Foreign Legion is Erwin Rosen's stark french foreign legion memoir of soldier life in North Africa at the dawn of the early 20th century war era. With a journalist's eye and a deserter's honesty, he describes legionnaire training and hardship, brutal discipline, and the strange camaraderie of European soldier in Africa amid sand, fever ...