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 ...

French Foreign Legion generals worked with members of the Palladium design team to perfect prototypes of the special-edition style. Details unique to the boot, called the Pallabrousse Legacy ...

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 ...

French Foreign Legion soldiers are waiting for the next patrol on Aug. 24, 2014. Edouard Elias French Foreign Legion soldiers are hiding behind sandbags on Aug. 16, 2014.

DUEKOUE, Ivory Coast — French Foreign Legion soldiers crouch behind logs and sandbags, training their anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns west -- into rebel territory ...