La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion in Combat 2008–2018
La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion...

La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion in Combat 2008–2018

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Nine officers of the French Foreign Legion have taken up the pen to recount the last decade of combat of this legendary unit. For the first time, the reader accompanies the men in their white képis in Afghanistan, French Guiana, the Central African Republic, and Mali. "Monsieur légionnaire" was everywhere France decided to fight. From training to the most gruelling combat, it is the daily life of these men who came from all over the world to serve a country other than their own that is recounted here, as close to the ground as possible.

Over the past ten years, some of them had an appointment with death. They came from Nepal, Serbia, South Africa, Slovakia — often with a certain idea of France, but above all drawn by the myth of this unit unlike any other in the world, its motto — honour and fidelity — and also the "baroud" celebrated in their song "La lune est claire".

It is to them that their fellow legionnaires wished to pay tribute by writing this book.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface. Another World, by François Sureau

The French Foreign Legion in 2020, by General Denis Mistral

Code of honour of the legionnaire

Warning

Where it all begins… 4e étranger, 2007

Selva! French Guiana, 2008

March diary. Afghanistan, 2009

Cheng. Afghanistan, 2009

The death of Milan Hutnik. Afghanistan, 2010

The soldier's trade. Afghanistan, 2010

The great leap. Mali, 2013

Le Tatoué. Mali, 2013. Ivan. Mali, 2013

Reconnaissance. Central African Republic, 2014

To the colours! Mali, 2018

Appendices

Author 1
PIERRE-HENRI AUBRY , BENOÎT DORIGNY , MICHAËL HAMANN
Author 2
STÉPHANE LAITSELART , PAUL-HENRI DE LASTOURS , CLÉMENT LAUNAY , THOMAS-MARIE MIAILHES
Author 3
VALENTIN OLIVIER , NATHANAËL PONTICELLI
Publication date
November 6, 2020
Pages
312
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
Les Belles Lettres
EAN
9782251451244

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