Stories of the Foreign Legion

Men with hidden pasts and reckless futures...soldiers in the Army of the Damned Courage and treachery—Suspensę and adventure Here are the soldiers who march in the Ranks of Death— the Foreign Legion. And here are their women ... as reckless and daring as the men they follow. With all the color and high excitement that made BEAU GESTE an adventure classic, Percival Christopher Wren brings to vivid life the savagery and heroism, the spectacular thrills and dangers of war in the desert and brutality in the barracks. Here are seventeen stories about men who lived to forget and died for a country not their own. Pimp and nobleman, gutter rat and gentleman . . . they met the hellish challenge of life in the Foreign Legion with courage and lusty humor. CONTENTS 1. Ten Little Legionaries 2. An Officer and—A Liar 3. Five Minutes 4. "Here are Ladies" 5. Moonshine 6. The Coward of the Legion 7. Mahdev Rao 8. What's in a Name 9. A Gentleman of Color 10. Buried Treasure 11. Presentiments 12. Moonset 13. The Life of Odo Klemens 14. The Betrayal of Odo Klemens 15. No. 187017 16. E Tenebris 17. Nemesis * Cover painting by Robert Schulz Published originally by the Macrae-Smith-Company in 1948