Maps | p. vii |
Glossary and abbreviations | p. xxv |
Picture captions | p. xxix |
Preface | p. xlv |
Prologue: 'Bloody Week' | p. 1 |
Soldiering in the Time of Fever | |
The Tools of Empire | p. 33 |
'France Overseas' | p. 45 |
La Mission Civilisatrice and the Straw Hat Trade | p. 74 |
The Year of the Five Kings | p. 93 |
General Vengeance and King Zinc-Nose | p. 135 |
Tiger Country | p. 166 |
'A Calling Devoid of Allurement' | p. 210 |
Maroc | |
The Instruments of Downfall - 1893-9 | p. 249 |
Sixty Thousand Dead Camels - 1900-1902 | p. 271 |
Blood and Sand - 1902-1903 | p. 287 |
The Lyautey Drill - 1904-1907 | p. 323 |
Two Kinds of War - 1908 | p. 351 |
Falling towards Fes - 1909-12 | p. 376 |
The Immaculate Raiment - 1912-14 | p. 394 |
The Lobster Shell - 1914-18 | p. 422 |
Flawed Blades - 1919-22 | p. 454 |
'The Most Indomitable Race in the World' - 1923-24 | p. 475 |
Dropping the Baton - 1925 | p. 503 |
The Reckoning - 1926-30 | p. 552 |
'Obscure and Unknown Sacrifices' - 1930-34 | p. 579 |
Epilogue: The Fort at the Edge of the World | p. 603 |
Summary of Foreign Legion operations in Europe, 1914-18 | p. 613 |
Summary of Foreign Legion operations in the Levant, 1925 | p. 618 |
P.C Wren, 1875-1941 | p. 622 |
Notes and sources | p. 628 |
Select bibliography | p. 666 |
Index | p. 672 |
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