Featured battle : Castel di Sangro

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 13 May 1815

The purely infantry Neapolitan force were engaged by amixed Austrian force of equal number. The Neapolitan figures for killed and wounded are not known but 206 were captured. Austrian Hussars broke the square of the 10th Line Infantry Regiment and scattered them. The Neapolitans withdrew to the southwest.

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