ffl by oliver

the legion 1901

A classic tale of family honor where the French Foreign Legion battles Tuareg rebels in the North African deserts. I have always loved the idea of the fort being manned by a troop of dead soldiers – it’s one of the classic scenes in literature.

Would a child reading this book today understand the principle of honor and the desire to avoid family disgrace which is the fundamental theme behind this novel? Hollywood used to love this book, I still do.

 

my collection

all of these foreign legion and arab horseman were bought in lodi in a toy shop I was passing in the early 90's and which had them on sale at about 20p each. There were a lot of other deetail there but for some reson I didnt go back.The crescen officer has a new metal sabre and was bought in a job lot of old crap on ebay. It cost me bout two pounds and the crecent officer was going unoticed

my collection french foreign legion captain

i photographed a model of a foreign legion officer in indo-china