The French Foreign Legion: A Guidebook to Joining by Simon Jameson

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By Simon Jameson

A former Legionnaire's perception approximately the right way to subscribe to the well-known French overseas Legion. The booklet includes concise info on the place to hitch (including addresses and tel numbers) the agreement you're required to signal, a tranlsation of the agreement, guns and kit, postings and pay scales, a standard day, myths of the Legion, traditions of the Legion. in truth - the entire info you are going to virtually need to make an educated choice to whether or to not subscribe to the world's most famed army.

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