Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Americans Who Joined the First World War in 1914 Elmark Nils
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Americans Who Joined the First World War in 1914 Elmark Nils On 24 August 1914, forty-four Americans joined the Foreign Legion and "with a cowboy swing"…
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Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Americans Who Joined the First World War in 1914 Elmark Nils
On 24 August 1914, forty-four Americans joined the Foreign Legion and "with a cowboy swing" marched through Paris, wildly cheered by the crowd. They were the first Americans in the Great War, driven by a love for France and a thirst for adventure with no idea of the horrors awaiting them. They were Ivy League graduates, artists and dreamers and soldiers of fortune starting on equal terms as recruits in the French Army.
King survived four years in the trenches ending as an officer in the US Army chasing German spies in Switzerland. This book is the amazing story of these American legionnaires told by three of the young volunteers: - David Wooster King - a 21-year-old dropout from Harvard, son of a rich businessman. He became a modern global adventurer and when the world went to war again David King was the first to volunteer for an even greater adventure in North Africa.
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