Long before Beau Geste, Wren was writing about the French Foreign Legion from the inside. This 1916 novel follows legionaries in the North African garrisons, among them the irrepressible Cockney Herbert Higgins, through drill, brawls, desert marches and the hard code of the Legion, while a story of love and self-sacrifice runs beneath the soldiering.
Reprinted again and again through the 1920s, it shows Wren already at home in the world that made his name. Download the free EPUB.