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The true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara. Martin Windrow's debut work LAST VALLEY took the history world by storm in 2004, winning fabulous reviews across the English-speaking world and has now sold more than 20,000 copies in trade paperback. LAST VALLEY told the story of the French defeat in Indochina in 1954, a war which thrust the French Foreign Legion to prominence. But the Legion remains most strongly associated with the North African desert where it campaigned almost unceasingly from 1870. This is the Legion of legend: remote forts, savage tribes, men of all nationalities enlisting under pseudonyms to fight and die under a savage desert sun. This is the Legion immortalized by PC Wren and Beau Geste. No English-speaking author is better qualified to bring this epic tale to life than Martin Windrow. Like LAST VALLEY, this is a story he has been studying for forty years; his meticulous research and vivid writing style will make BEAU GESTE'S FOREIGN LEGION the last word on what remains the most famous military organization in the world.