CONTENTS
1 The Most Dangerous Place on Earth 11 2 Dreaming of Being a Soldier 21 3 Earning the Kepi Blanc 30 4 On Duty in Cambodia 62 5 Hell on Earth – Sarajevo 87 6 With NATO in Bosnia 114 7 Quitting My Beloved Legion 133 8 A Walking Time-bomb 154 9 Back to Business 167 10 Hostile Territory – Basra 178 11 Baghdad 199 12 The Killing Ground 222 13 ‘But You’re Dead!’ 250 14 The Hell of Haiti 275 15 Je Ne Regrette Rien 293
Appendix: The French Foreign Legion; Security Contractors and Mercenaries; Cambodia; Bosnia; Iraq; Haiti; The Kalashnikov 303
Bibliography 320