An Englishman enlists in the French Foreign Legion and tells what followed: barrack life and marches in Algeria, then a posting to Tonkin in northern Vietnam, where the Legion fought rebel bands in the forests of Yen-Thé. Manington describes ambushes, captures, native carriers and the comrades who fell, and dedicates the book to their memory.
A first-hand account of colonial soldiering in the 1880s and 1890s, written with the outlook of its time. Download the free EPUB.