Stepsons Of France

Author Percival Christopher Wren spins of another French Foreign Legion tale in the novel "Stepsons of France". At the Depôt at Sidi-bel-Abbès, Sergeant-Major Suicide-Maker was a devil, but at a little frontier outpost in the desert, he was the devil, the increase in his degree being commensurate with the increase in his opportunities. When the Seventh Company of the First Battalion of the Foreign Legion of France, stationed at Aïnargoula in the Sahara, learned that Lieutenant Roberte was in hospital with a broken leg, it realized that, Captain d'Armentières being absent with the Mule Company, chasing Touaregs to the south, it would be commanded for a space by Sergeant-Major Suicide-Maker—in other words by The Devil. But the murderous brute may not have his way, for at that moment a plot was brewing. Ten legionaries under the leadership of a Frenchman calling himself Blondin, and who spoke perfect English and German, had formed a secret society and hatched a plot. They were going to "remove" Sergeant-Major Suicide-Maker and "go on pump," as the legionary calls deserting..."

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A vivid picture of life in the French Foreign Legion. The sayings, the doings and adventures of those reckless soldiers make it not only a romance but a reality. Soldats de la Légion, de la Légion Étrangère, n'ayant pas de nation, la France est votre Mère. - War-Song of the Legion. A selection of tales from Wren, including: Ten little Legionaries, A la Ninon de L'Enclos, An Officer and-a Liar, The Dead Hand, The Gift, The Deserter, Five Minutes, "Here are Ladies", The MacSnorrt, "Belzébuth", The Quest, "Vengeance is Mine...", Sermons in Stones, Moonshine, The Coward of the Legion, Mahdev Rao, The Merry Liar.

A vivid picture of life in the French Foreign Legion. The sayings, the doings and adventures of those reckless soldiers make it not only a romance but a reality. Soldats de la Légion, de la Légion Étrangère, n'ayant pas de nation, la France est votre Mère. - War-Song of the Legion. A selection of tales from Wren, including: Ten little Legionaries, A la Ninon de L'Enclos, An Officer and-a Liar, The Dead Hand, The Gift, The Deserter, Five Minutes, "Here are Ladies", The MacSnorrt, "Belzébuth", The Quest, "Vengeance is Mine...", Sermons in Stones, Moonshine, The Coward of the Legion, Mahdev Rao, The Merry Liar.

Stepsons of France by Percival Christopher Wren first published in 1917.Percival Christopher Wren was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its main sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal (in fact the so-called "trilogy" was extended in Good Gestes and Spanish Maine, so John Geste adventures feature in five books).At the Depôt at Sidi-bel-Abbès, Sergeant-Major Suicide-Maker was a devil, but at a little frontier outpost in the desert, he was the devil, the increase in his degree being commensurate with the increase in his opportunities. When the Seventh Company of the First Battalion of the Foreign Legion of France, stationed at Aïnargoula in the Sahara, learned that Lieutenant Roberte was in hospital with a broken leg, it realized that, Captain d'Armentières being absent with the Mule Company, chasing Touaregs to the south...

A vivid picture of life in the French Foreign Legion. The sayings, the doings and adventures of those reckless soldiers make it not only a romance but a reality. Soldats de la L�gion, de la L�gion �trang�re, n'ayant pas de nation, la France est votre M�re. - War-Song of the Legion. A selection of tales from Wren, including: Ten little Legionaries, A la Ninon de L'Enclos, An Officer and-a Liar, The Dead Hand, The Gift, The Deserter, Five Minutes, "Here are Ladies", The MacSnorrt, "Belz�buth", The Quest, "Vengeance is Mine...", Sermons in Stones, Moonshine, The Coward of the Legion, Mahdev Rao, The Merry Liar.

A vivid picture of life in the French Foreign Legion. The sayings, the doings and adventures of those reckless soldiers make it not only a romance but a reality. Soldats de la Légion, de la Légion Étrangère, n'ayant pas de nation, la France est votre Mère. - War-Song of the Legion. A selection of tales from Wren, including: Ten little Legionaries, A la Ninon de L'Enclos, An Officer and-a Liar, The Dead Hand, The Gift, The Deserter, Five Minutes, "Here are Ladies", The MacSnorrt, "Belzébuth", The Quest, "Vengeance is Mine...", Sermons in Stones, Moonshine, The Coward of the Legion, Mahdev Rao, The Merry Liar.