Featured battle : Paris

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 30 March 1814

The battle by which the Allies took Paris was fought mainly on the northern edge. Initially poor generalship and staff work fed Allied troops [Russians] in piecemeal and they suffered heavy losses before the troops of other Allied armies joined them. Over five thousand of the Allies 6,700 losses were Russians in the early phase of the battle.

Fighting for the French Foreign Legion - Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire

Lochrie, Alex
There are quite a number of memoirs out there of men attracted by the legion, and I've read most of them. Luckily, this one ranks quite highly amongst those I've read. The author manages to join the legion at quite an advanced age - 38 - and so brings a different viewpoint to the training and life as an older man.
His training and experience as a member of their special forces is usual for this kind of book - he serves in Tchad, Bosnia, Desert Storm, but he becomes a technical specialist in photographic techniques and brings a sensitivity to his writing that is sometimes lacking in others. It's a more thoughtful book, and should be a good addition to anyone's Legion library.

Pen & Sword Military, 2013