Featured battle : Vigo

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 27 March 1809

A somewhat unorthodox engagement. The French were a single battalion garrison plus a few hundred sick and wounded. The attackers were Spanish Irregulars [Guerillas] supported by and supplied with weapons from the British frigates H.M.Ss. Lively and Venus. The French surrendered on terms that they should become prisoners of the British. A large amount of military supplies and Soult's military chest containing over £6,000 were captured.

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