Books About The French Foreign Legion
1905-1910
John Patrick LE POER : A Modern Legionary (1905 E P Dutton)
G A MANNINGTON : Soldier of the Legion (1907 John Murray)
I A R WYLIE : The Foreign Legion (nd. Grosset & Dunlap)
Erwin ROSEN : In the Foreign Legion (1910 Duckworth)
1911-1920
Frederic MARTYN : Life in the Legion from a Soldier's Point of View (1911 Scribners US)
LEGIONNAIRE 17,889 : In the Foreign Legion (1915 Arnold)
Henry FARNSWORTH : Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth of the Foreign Legion (1916 US)
Edward MORLAE : A Soldier in the Legion (1916 Houghton Mifflin)
Russell A KELLY : Kelly of the Foreign Legion (1917 Mitchell Kennerley US)
1921-1930
Maurice MAGNUS : Memoirs of the Foreign Legion (1924 Secker)
Zinovi PECHKOFF : The Bugle Sounds (1926 Appleton)
David Wooster KING : LM 8046 - An Intimate Story of the Foreign Legion (1927 Duffield US)
Christian AAGE (Prince of Denmark) : My Life in the Foreign Legion (1928 Nash & Grayson)
John HARVEY : With the Foreign Legion in Syria (1928 Hutchinson)
Bennett DOTY : Legion of the Damned (1928 Garden City US)
Paul Ayres ROCKWELL : American Fighters in the Foreign Legion 1914-1918
(1930 Houghton Mifflin)
1931-1935
Francis A WATERHOUSE : Twixt Hell and Allah (1931 Sampson Low)
Reginald R FORBES : Red Horizon (1932 Sampson Low)
Ernst F LOHNDORFF : Hell in the Foreign Legion (1932 Greensberg US)
Adolphe Richard COOPER : Twelve Years in the Foreign Legion
(1932 Angus & Robertson, Australia)
Michael DONOVAN : March or Die ! (1932 Cassell)
EX-LEGIONNAIRE 1384 : The Hell Hounds of France (1932 Sampson Low)
Francis A WATERHOUSE : Five Sous a Day (1933 Sampson Low)
John GIBBONS : The Truth about the Legion (1933 Methuen)
G WARD-PRICE : In Morocco with the Legion (1934 Anchor Press)
EX-LEGIONNAIRE 1384 : Legion of the Lost (1934 Sampson Low)
EX-LEGIONNAIRE 1384 : The Arab Patrol (1935 Sampson Low)
1936-1950
EX-LEGIONNAIRE 1384 : Spies of the Sahara (1936 Sampson Low)
W J BLACKLEDGE : The Legion of Marching Madmen (1936 Sampson Low)
William S ELLIOTT : The Tiger of the Legion - being the story of Tiger O'Reilly
(1936 Sampson Low)
J M ARMSTRONG & W S ELLIOTT : Legion of Hell (1936 Appleton)
EX-LEGIONNAIRE 1384 : The Son of Allah (1937 Rich & Cowan)
W B BANNERMAN : Dead March in the Desert - The Story of Mervyn Pellew, ex-Legionnaire 9801
(1937 Sampson Low)
Ian CAMERON : Murder in the Legion (1937 Sampson Low)
Angus McLEAN : Vive la Legion (1937 Sampson Low)
EX-LEGIONNAIRE 1384 : Slaves of Morocco (1938 Sampson Low)
Capt Victor CRANTON : Keepers of the Desert (1939 Sampson Low)
1951-1960
Alfred PERROTT-WHITE : French Legionnaire (1953 John Murray)
Howard SWIGETT : March or Die - The Story of the French Foreign Legion (1953 Putnam US)
Adrian LIDDELL HART : Strange Company (1953 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Henry AINLEY : In Order to Die - with the Foreign Legion in Indochina (1955 Burke)
Walter KANITZ : The White Kepi - A Casual History of the French Foreign Legion
(1956 Henry Regnery US)
Michael ALEXANDER : The Reluctant Legionnaire - An Escapade (1956 Hart-Davis 16/-)
John EHLE : The Survivor - The Story of Eddy Hukov (1958 Henry Holt US)
1961-1970
Edgar O'BALLANCE : The Story of the Foreign Legion (1961 Faber)
John TOWNSHEND : The Legion of the Damned (1963 Adventures Club)
Geoffrey BOCCA : La Legion ! (1964 Thos Crowell US)
Charles MERCER : The Foreign Legion (1964 Arthur Barker)
Patrick TURNBULL : The Foreign Legion (1964 Heinemann)
1971-1980
George Robert ELFORD : Devil's Guard (1971 Delacorte US)
A R COOPER : March or Bust - Adventures in the Foreign Legion (1972 Robert Hale)
Nigel THOMAS : The French Foreign Legion (1973 Wayland)
Hugh McLEAVE : The Damned Die Hard (1974 Saxon House)
John LAFFIN : The French Foreign Legion (1974 Dent)
James WELLAND : The French Foreign Legion (1974 Deutsch)
ERwan BERGOT : The French Foreign Legion (1975 Allan Wingate)
Martin WINDROW : The French Foreign Legion - Airfix Magazine Guide 13
(1976 Patrick Stevens)
Simon MURRAY : Legionnaire - My Five Years in The French Foreign Legion
(1978 Sidgwick & Jackson)
1981 Onwards
Martin WINDROW : Uniforms of The French Foreign Legion 1831-1981 (1981 Blandford)
John Robert YOUNG : The French Foreign Legion (1984 Thames & Hudson)
ANON : French Foreign Legion Mines and Booby Traps (1985 Paladin US)
Martin WINDROW : The French Foreign Legion Paratroops (1985 Osprey)
Yves L CADIOUS & Tibor SZECSKO : The French Foreign Legion 1940 to Present
(1986 Arms & Armour Press)
Tony GERAGHTY : March or Die - France and the Foreign Legion (1986 Grafton)
Roy C ANDERSON : Devils, Not Men - The History of The French Foreign Legion
(1987 Robert Hale)
Christian JENNINGS : A Mouthful of Rocks - Modern Adventures in The French Foreign Legion
(1989 Bloomsbury)
Douglas PORCH : The French Foreign Legion - A Complete History (1991 Macmillan £25)
Peter MACDONALD : The Making of a Legionnaire (1991 Sidgwick & Jackson £18.99)
Yves DEBAY : The French Foreign Legion Today (1992 Windrow & Greene £10.95) pb
Yves DEBAY : The French Foreign Legion in Action (1992 Windrow & Greene £10.95) - pb