5/29/2023 0 Comments Legionnaire by Simon MurrayThis is, first and foremost, an intensely personal account. But political considerations do not factor, in any significant degree, in this book. This war would not end well for France, as the war in Indochina did not end well. France was embroiled in a futile war against the Algerian independence insurgency. In this book I have extracted from those diaries what might be of interest and left out, I hope, much of the boredom.įor the period of Murray’s service in the Foreign Legion was one of the most difficult in its history. During that time I was never without pen and paper, and I recorded the events of each and every day with very few exceptions. I was nineteen years of age at the time and I stayed for five years. I joined the French Foreign Legion on 22 February 1960. He begins his tale simply, as all good personal narratives begin: First published in 1978, it was recently reissued in 2006 as a mass market paperback. I have recently finished reading Simon Murray’s memoir of his life in the French Foreign Legion, which is titled simply Legionnaire: Five Years in the French Foreign Legion.
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