In the spring of 1959 Clive Chabrier set off to go jiving at the Aldershot Palais. A spur of the moment decision changed his direction that fateful evening and within 36 hours he was unwittingly imprisoned in the menacing confines of a Foreign Legion base. Weeks later, with the silent but real threat of unknown consequences if he refused, Clive ceased to be a prisoner and reluctantly became a legion recruit. What followed was a long, harsh and brutal training under NCOs of the now disbanded 1er REP where he earned his wings as a Legion paratrooper in war-torn Algeria. Determined to escape,...