Allah il Allah!

Sampson Low 1936 edition.
Note: pages 123-24 removed, pages 253-254 damaged, one illustration missing.
`I had had visions of being received by the French as a bit of a hero - a foreigner who had voluntarily come across the ocean to serve Mother France... I had visions of being treated by them with renewed and increased kindliness and good-comradeship. But I found that I was regarded and treated as a sort of criminal - and, moreover, of the type not really wanted in the Legion at all!...'