The Monastery of the Damned: From the Ivy League to the French Foreign Legion

Most men fantasize about military life and action. Few ever serve. Even fewer succeed in joining elite combat units. In a world of roughly four billion men, only a few thousand each year dare to take the ultimate leap of faith by joining the most renowned and mysterious military fighting force in the world, the French Foreign Legion. In the attempt to forge himself into a “Renaissance man,” Nicholas Tobias—a young scholar with a promising future at the Anglo-Saxon Academy, a recent convert ...