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Summary: My second response
Review: The first is a few posts back. I had a fellow in Ireland email me reference my post and we started conversing on this book and I loaned it to him for awhile. My friends said to me, "oh you'll never get it back", but he was true to his word and its good to know that there are still those you can "shake hands with" that are sincere and truthful. This book was supposed to be a true account of the FFL in 1984 but after reading "legionestrange@usa.net"'s post I don't know. Maybe most of it was just a story, done like a Lowell Thomas book, "larger then life". It's a good read anyway, and the author has had some more recent adventures which may be worthy of another book. But he never responded to 2 letters I wrote thanking him for writing his book. Perhaps "legionestrange@usa.net" is right about the author and maybe he is the one that needs to take up writing with a truthful account of Legion life. Gregg C. Jennings
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Summary: Honest To A Fault
Review: The Legion has always taken pride in that it takes the scum of the earth and through keen discipline turns them into legionaires. The author of this book was a self admitted petty thief and criminal when he entered the legion. This book chronicles his story from his drunken days in England to his entrance into the elite paratroop regiment unit to his desertion. Although, I have never served in the Legion, my sense is that his book is very honest. Jenning's book is a wonderful contrast to Simon Murray's "Legionaire".
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Summary: A view to publishing....
Review: This is not a good book. Having spent half my life in the army I can't understand why Jennings got so far into the Legion. It's like he was thinking about writing it all the while instead of getting on with his life and work there. He's almost too articulate for his own sanity. I also had the feeling there is a second voice in the writing, either an editor, or ghost writer, who is leaving things out. One thing I found disturbing, there's a thread of homosexuality running through this book. It's as if Jennings wants to be the man he longs to be, a sort of super-heterosexual-action-man, and hopes it will rub off on him by joining the French Foreign Legion where there must be the type of man he longs to be. When Jennings discovers this is not the way to manhood he deserts.
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