This was a squad in a fearsome desert battle group trundling through the Malian steppe — soldiers of the legendary French Foreign Legion ... in desert battle uniform, looking for G.A.T.s ...

A British tennis-playing socialite became the only woman in the French Foreign Legion ... After creating her own uniform, Travers became the first and only woman ever to serve with the Legion, and was ...

On Aug. 22, 1914, he wrote her that he had enlisted in the foreign legion “for the duration of the war.” He had grown a beard, he wrote, and donned the early-war French uniform of red trousers ...

France’s Foreign Legion, the national army's elite infantry force, has long attracted men the world over looking for adventure, a new start in life and the promise of French nationality.