Featured battle : Mühlbacher-Klause

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 11 September 1813

A very tiny, seemingly worthless engagement, between a company of Tyrolean Landesschützen [Militia] and a company of the newly raised Reserve Division of Eugène's Army of Italy . The effect was out of all proportion because it caused the Franco-Italians to fall back 90 miles across easily defended terrain. Prince Eugène sacked Bonfanti, the commander of the division.

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