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Marching with the Devil
David Mason
其他書名
Legend, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion
出版Hachette Australia, 2010
ISBN07336263279780733626326
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7MjISAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋'In 1894 a French Foreign Legion General said, Legionnaires, vous etes faits pour mourir, je vous envoie la ou on meurt. Legionnaires, you are made for dying, I will send you where you can die. When I was in my mid-teens and first read those words they were powerful and confronting. I read them as a challenge and an invitation. The words, and the feelings they evoked, remained with me until I was ready. On 20 May 1988, I enlisted in the French Foreign Legion.' Based on his diaries, this is a frank account of how Mason came first in basic training, trained other Legionnaires, went to Africa, did sniper, commando and medic s training and took part in two operations, both in the Republic of Djibouti where a civil war nearly crippled the nation. It tells of his daily life in the Legion, in the training regiment, in Africa and with the Legion s Parachute Regiment. But more than this: David s gripping account reveals his disillusionment, frustration and disappointments, and how the Legion today is not what it seems.