It feels like an anachronism, but the French Foreign Legion—the legendary last-stop military brigade for disgraced officers, French criminals, desperate foreigners, and foolish adventurers ...

A member of the French Foreign Legion salutes American soldiers as they march by during a parade June 4, 2014, in the streets of Carentan, France. The parade was part of the commemorative 70th ...

More than just a fixture in movies from the 30's and 40's, the French Foreign Legion has seen more continuous fighting than any other military outfit in the world.

Created in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has evolved is now one of the most effective units in the French military and always getting picked for no-notice deployments in hot spots around the world.

Legion of the Lost: The True Experience of an American in the French Foreign Legion. By Jaime Salazar. Berkley/Caliber, 243 pp. $23.95. The fabled Legion had always fascinated Salazar, a young ...

The French Foreign Legion has developed a lore of haunted romance, but it is still an elite fighting force made up of renegades and fugitives who are sent… ...

“The Legion is our home” is the motto of the Foreign Legion, the legendary elite branch of the French Army.Africans, Americans, Asians, Europeans, anyone between 17 and 40 years old can sign ...