This is a unique book written by a unique person. Investment banker and member of the boards of directors of various companies, from steel companies to fashion houses Hermes and Tommy Hilfiger, founder of one of the first and largest mobile communications companies Orange (sold in ultimately for 35 billion dollars), head of the Asian branch of Deutsche Bank, holder of the highest awards of England and France - the Order of the British Empire and the Legion of Honor, a lover of thrills and extreme sports, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest participant in a 242-kilometer marathon across the Moroccan desert (at the age of 60) and the Antarctic expedition to the South Pole (at the age of 64), - Simon Murray did not gain his wits at Harvard or Cambridge with Eton - the French Foreign Legion served as his school of life. Over its almost two-century history, this legendary the unit participated in most of the French colonial wars - in Latin America and Indochina, in North Africa and on the Crimean Peninsula; A total of more than 600,000 people from all over the world served under the green and red flag of the legion. Englishman Simon Murray was nineteen when he enlisted in the legion, fleeing an unhappy love. Throughout his five years of Algerian service, he kept a diary, which served as the basis for a book he wrote years later. In the book, translated into many languages, sold over a million copies and filmed, Murray tells about perhaps the most severe school of military training in the world, about the fight against Arab guerrillas and about the conspiracy of the generals against President de Gaulle, who announced a referendum on Algerian self-determination... For the first time in Russian.