A German student too lively for his professors drifts to America in search of fortune and later enlists in the French Foreign Legion. Rosen describes the depot at Sidi-bel-Abbès, the brutal marches and punishments, the comradeship and squalor of barrack life in Algeria, and the history of the corps since 1831.
A frank, unsparing first-hand account from 1910 of life in the most famous mercenary corps in the world. Download the free EPUB.