In The Foreign Legion. Illustrated

n Belfort : Sunrays and fear : Madame and the waiter : The French lieutenant : The enlistment office of the Foreign Legion : Naked humanity : A surgeon with a lost sense of smell : "Officier Allemand" Transport of recruits on the railway : What our ticket did for us and France : The patriotic conductor : Marseilles : The gate of the French Colonies : The Colonial hotel : A study in blue and yellow : On the Mediterranean : The ship''s cook : The story of the Royal Prince of Prussia at Saida : Oran : Wine and l?gionnaires : How the deserter reached Spain and why he returned.French and American bugle-calls : Southward to the city of the Foreign Legion : Sidi-bel-Abb?s : The sergeant is not pleased : A final fight with pride : The jokes of the Legion : The wise negro : Bugler Smith : I help a l?gionnaire to desert : The Eleventh Company : How clothes are sold in the Legion : Number 17889.In the company''s storeroom : Mr. Smith-American, l?gionnaire, philosopher : The Legion''s neatness : The favourite substantive of the Foreign Legion : What the commander of the Old Guard said at Waterloo : Old and young l?gionnaires : The canteen : Madame la Cantini?re : The regimental feast : Strange men and strange things : The skull : The prisoners'' march : The wealth of Monsieur Rassedin, l?gionnaire : "Rehabilitation" : The Koran chapter of the Stallions.A day''s work as a recruit : Allez, hurry up! : The Legion''s etiquette : A morning''s run : The "cercle d''enfer" and the lack of soap : The main object of the Legion''s training : Splendid marchers : Independent soldiers : Forty kilometres a day : Uniform, accoutrements, baggage, victualling : The training of the l?gionnaire in detail : The l?gionnaire as a practical man : Specialties of the Legion : Programme for a week in the Legion : The l?gionnaire as a labourer.The money troubles of the Legion : Five centimes wages : The cheapest soldiers of the world : Letters from the Legion : The science of "decorating" : The industries of the l?gionnaires : What the bugler did for a living : The man with the biscuits : A thief in the night : Summary lynch law : Herr von Rader and la Cantini?re : "The Legion works-the Legion gets no pay!".The daily exodus to town : Ben Mansur''s coffee : The Ghetto : The citizens of Sidi-bel-Abb?s and the l?gionnaires : How the Legion squared accounts with the civilians : A forbidden part of the town : Primitive vice : A dance of a night : The gardens : The last resting-place of the Legion''s dead.The hall of honour : A collection of ruined talents : The battle of Camaron : A skeleton outline of the Legion''s history : A hundred thousand victims : A psychological puzzle : True heroes : How they are rewarded : The chances of promotion : The pension system of the Foreign Legion.The Legion''s war-cry : A night alarm : On the march : The counting of the milestones : Under canvas : The brutality of the marches : The l?gionnaire and the staff doctor : My fight for an opiate : The "marching pig" : The psychology of the marches : Excited nerves : The song of imprecations.An unpleasant occurrence : The last three coppers : The Roumanian Jew from Berlin : Monsieur Via?sse : The Legion''s atmosphere : The Cafard demoniacs : Bismarck''s double : Kr?gerle''s whim : The madness of L?gionnaire Bauer : Brutal humour : Death in the desert : The Legion''s deserters : A disastrous flight in a motor-car : The tragic fate of an Austrian engineer : In the Ghetto of Sidi-bel-Abb?s : The business part of desertion : Oran and Algiers : The Consulate as a trap : The financial side of desertion : One hundred kilometres of suffering: Shamming : In the Suez Canal : Morocco.The return of the poumpistes : The scale of punishments in the Legion : Of spiteful non-commissioned officers : The Legion''s axiom : Sad history of Little Jean : The punishment machine : Lost years : The prisons in the Foreign Legion : The general cells : Life in the prison : On sentry duty among the prisoners.

• | Author: Erwin Rosen
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 162 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1542477948
• | ISBN-13: 9781542477949