 | The French Foreign Legion: Complete History of The Legendary Fighting Force by Douglas Porch
Buy used from: $5.00 The single best account of the Legion's History. Douglas Porch is both a great scholar and writer. A very enjoyable introduction.
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 | Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion by Simon Murray
Buy used from: $4.92 English Legionnaire during the Algerian War. This is the classic autobiography in the heroic Beau Geste tradition.
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 | Mouthful of Rocks: Modern Adventures in the French Foreign Legion by Jennings
Buy used from: $0.50 This is the anti-Beau Geste autobiography. The author is a drunken cad in the Flashman tradition. Ends up deserting from the Parachute Regiment. A very funny book.
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 | The Making of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment by Bill Parris
Buy used from: $3.25 A contemporary account by one of those motivated Englishmen who ends up in the Parachute Regiment.
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 | Life in the French Foreign Legion: How to Join and What to Expect When You Get There by Evan McGorman
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.49 A "How To" Manual by a Canadian veteran of the Parachute Regiment. Story of Legion life in the early 1990's.
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 | Legionnaire's Journey, A by Leslie Aparvary
Buy used from: $7.25 The Second World War is over and a desperate stateless Hungarian joins the Legion. A classic account of Legion life in Indochina.
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 | Legion of the Lost: The True Experience of An American in the French Foreign Legion by Jaime Salazar
Buy new: $8.63 / Used from: $0.79 An American Yuppie in the Legion.
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 | The Naked Soldier: A True Story of the French Foreign Legion by Tony Sloane
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $5.00 One of the best psycological portraits of Legion Life.
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 | Diary of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion by Gareth Carins
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $17.55 The Foreign Legion at the turn of the Twenty First Century
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 | With the French Foreign Legion in Syria by John Harvey
Buy used from: $9.00 Fighting the Druze in Syria during the 1920's. An account written during the "classic" era of Legion history.
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 | The Paratroopers of the French Foreign Legion: From Vietnam to Bosnia by Howard R. Simpson
Buy used from: $17.13 An American diplomat who knew the Legion in Indochina and Algeria visits the Paratrooper Regiment in Corsica.
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 | 2E REP: The French Foreign Legion Parachutist's Regiment by Yves Debay
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $25.88 Photo collection of the famed 2nd Parachute Regiment.
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| The French Foreign Legion Today (Europa Militaria) by Yves Debay
Buy used from: $5.50 Photo collection of the contemporary Legion.
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 | French Foreign Legion Operations 1990-2000 Europa Military Special #15 by Yves Debay
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $15.18 Photo collection of the contemporary Legion. Nice pictures and a superficial text.
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| Uniforms of the French Foreign Legion, 1831-1981 by Martin Windrow
Buy used from: $18.00 The best uniform study of the Legion. A must for wargamers.
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 | French Foreign Legion Paratroops (Elite) by Martin Windrow
Buy used from: $11.50 Typical Osprey book.Only buy this paperback for the uniform plates.
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 | French Foreign Legion 1914-45 (Men-at-Arms) by Martin Windrow
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $14.00 Nice uniform plates for the Legion during its "classic" era.
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 | French Foreign Legion: Infantry and Cavalry since 1945 (Men-at-Arms) by Martin Windrow
Buy used from: $4.25 Get Douglas Porch for the history and Osprey titles for the uniform plates.
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 | The French Foreign Legion (Men-at-Arms) by Martin Windrow
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $12.42 A reprint of an old Osprey title. Uniform plates are so-so.
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 | Good Gestes: Stories of Beau Geste, His Brothers, and Certain of Their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion by Percival Christopher Wren
Buy new: $23.52 / Used from: $19.85 Wren's adventure story that set of the Legion craze. Don't bother with the other two books in the trilogy.
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![Beau Geste [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X4EJQXXSL._SL75_.jpg) | Beau Geste [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.75 The single greatest movie of Legion life during the "classic" era.
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 | Beau Travail
Buy used from: $16.95 Movie set in 1990's Djbouti. Based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
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 | Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert (Oxford Popular Fiction) by Ouida
Buy used from: $0.05 Early 20th Century adventure story of the Chassuers D'Afrique. Filled with the romantic atmospher of classic Legion stories.
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 | Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard Fall
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $3.62 Beautifully written account of one of the Legion's greatest battles.
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 | Street Without Joy by Bernard B. Fall
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $6.99 The story of how France lost Indochina.
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 | Camerone: The French Foreign Legion's Greatest Battle by James W. Ryan
Buy new: $99.95 / Used from: $125.26 A scholarly account of the Legion's greatest battle.
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