It showed the colonel a list of Russians in the Legion.

A Russian commission visited the barracks of the Legion. In 1945, an agreement between the French and Russian governments provided for the repatriation of all French prisoners in Russian hands, and all Russians on French soil.

I am grateful to the authors, agents and publishers who have granted me permission to use material from the following works: Leslie Aparvary, A Legionnaire’s Journey (Detselig Enterprises) Gareth Carins, Diary of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion (Grosvenor House, © 2007 – author website: Blaise Cendrars, Lice (Peter Owen) Anthony Delmayne, Sahara Desert Escape (Jarrolds), reprinted by permission of the Random House Group Christian Jennings, Mouthful of Rocks: Through Africa and Corsica in the French Foreign Legion (Bloomsbury) Simon Low, The Boys from Baghdad (Mainstream) Pádraig O’Keeffe with Ralph Riegel, Hidden Soldier: An Irish Legionnaire’s Wars from Bosnia to Iraq (The O’Brien Press Ltd, Dublin © Padraig O’Keeffe and Ralph Riegel) Simon Murray, Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion (Sidgwick & Jackson) John Parker, Inside the Foreign Legion: The Sensational Story of the World’s Toughest Army (Piatkus/Little Brown) Jaime Salazar, Legion of the Lost: The True Experience of an American in the French Foreign Legion (Berkley Caliber), represented by Andrew Lownie Howard Simpson, Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot (Potomac Books) Zosa Szajkowski, Jews and the French Foreign Legion (KTAV) Jacques Weygand, Légionnaire: Life with the Foreign Legion Cavalry (© Jacques Weygand, 1952), reproduced by permission of Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd James Worden, Wayward Legionnaire (Robert Hale, © 1988), reproduced by permission of James Worden and Pollinger Ltd.

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