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The French Foreign Legion - The Expendables
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What comes to mind when you think of the French Foreign Legion? Most likely men struggling through the desert in heavy blue coats and white peaked caps. Men who joined up after a lifetime of crime, fighting valiantly, then leaving the Legion to become tough, faceless mercenaries trading on their background, or else dying in the mud of Dien Bien Phu as the last choppers leave for La Belle France.
The reality is very different. Why does the romance of the legion still lure young men by their thousands every year? Was there ever a female legionnaire? Join historian Keith Hockton as he answers these questions and finally sets the record straight.
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