legion

The novel begins in Paris on the wedding night of Sally and Rex Garrett. A former member of the French Foreign Legion Rex mysteriously disappears on the night of his wedding. At The Pigeon House, a lonely inn, a band of conspirators await the arrival of a deserter from the Foreign Legion, who is their „key man” in their plan to start an uprising in French Morocco. The conspirators have also driven...

Decorated several times, he received, among others, the Cross of Valor for the Warsaw Uprising, and the Military Medal (Médaille militaire) for his service in Indochina. Mr. Jatczak returned to Poland and lived in the north of the country. He was a honorary member of the Association of Former Soldiers and Friends of the Foreign Legion in Poland. His memoirs, presented in this book, were collected between...