Marching with the Devil: Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion: Hachette Military Collection
Autor David Masonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 dec 2017
A real-life boy's own adventure, MARCHING WITH THE DEVIL is a hell-raising account of five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion.
'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.'
Searching for something he wasn't finding in his life in Australia, David Mason joined the French Foreign Legion. This is a frank account of how Mason came first in basic training, trained other Legionnaires, went to Africa, did sniper, commando and medic 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: it reveals his disillusionment, frustration and disappointment with the much mythologised Legion, and how the Legion today is not what it seems - or could be. Now part of the HACHETTE MILITARY COLLECTION.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780733639135
ISBN-10: 0733639135
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Hachette Australia
Seria Hachette Military Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0733639135
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Hachette Australia
Seria Hachette Military Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
‘Since its creation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has become the stuff of myth, fiction and dreams... Anyone thinking of joining up would be well advised to read this book first.’
‘Remarkable... It's hard not to think it a shame that a man of such obvious gifts should have wasted them on the legion, just so as not to have to feel like a quitter, even if this book was the result.’
‘Marching with the Devil quickly turns into an insightful and honest account of an unpretentious Aussie's experiences in one of the most ramshackle and soul-destroying military organisations on Earth.’
‘A strangely compulsive read about one man’s quest for self knowledge.’
‘Mason left a comfortable life in Australia to test himself in the crucible of the legion, and he writes about it 20 years after his service time necessary to give himself the distance and context he needed to write about an extraordinary and painful experience.’
‘It’s a rollicking, readable memoir of extreme adventures.’
‘Remarkable... It's hard not to think it a shame that a man of such obvious gifts should have wasted them on the legion, just so as not to have to feel like a quitter, even if this book was the result.’
‘Marching with the Devil quickly turns into an insightful and honest account of an unpretentious Aussie's experiences in one of the most ramshackle and soul-destroying military organisations on Earth.’
‘A strangely compulsive read about one man’s quest for self knowledge.’
‘Mason left a comfortable life in Australia to test himself in the crucible of the legion, and he writes about it 20 years after his service time necessary to give himself the distance and context he needed to write about an extraordinary and painful experience.’
‘It’s a rollicking, readable memoir of extreme adventures.’