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Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1913491250
Pages:	160	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A biography of Edmund Murray, Winston Churchills close friend and bodyguard in the final years of his life

In 1937, aged just nineteen, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France, and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the French Foreign Legion. Armed with little more than school-boy French and a desire for a life of adventure, Murray travelled through France and on to the Legion's headquarters in Algeria, where he completed a grueling three-month basic training program. He went on to serve in Morocco and Indochina (now Vietnam) where, towards the end of the war, his regiment were forced to retreat from invading Japanese forces into China, where his service ended after eight years as a Legionnaire. Throughout the Second World War, Murray's overwhelming sense of duty compelled him to try to leave the Legion and join the Allied forces, but he was thwarted at every attempt. He was an Englishman, in a French organization, by definition a home for "the men with no names," during a time of global conflict where battle lines and countries' boundaries changed almost daily. He was an anomaly, a diplomatic puzzle. But as such, his was an extraordinary wartime experience. This book, which borrows heavily from Murray's earlier book,
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