![]() ![]() So what was an engineering professional doing in the “Legion of the Damned”? For those Dostoevsky calls the “insulted and the injured,” men of character who seek adventure in the most obscure places, the Legion offers refuge. Getting out of the Foreign Legion, as Salazar soon realised, proved impossible. The Foreign Legion still exists today as an elite army of modern mercenaries from around the world, in the service of la France.Ĭonsidered a haven for the dregs of society, joining the Foreign Legion was rumoured to be simple, but it wasn’t. King Louis Philippe II created the Foreign Legion in 1831 as a way to rid France of penniless immigrants and others considered a liability to the French establishment. No army is more surrounded by mystery, romance, and admiration than the French Foreign Legion. ![]() Revised edition, with a new foreword and afterword from the author. ![]()
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