Desert Carrion. An Autobiography of the French Foreign Legion
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, no date. Hardcover. Red cloth. Black lettering to spine.246pp. Light wear at edges. In a mylar wrapper. very good. Item #91439
A man of many names,Operator 1384 was a pseudonym of David Harvey John Jones who also wrote under the names of John Henry Harvey, Ex-Legionnaire 1384 and John Barrington. Harvey (or whatever he real name was) was an Englishman who joined and then deserted the French Foreign Legion in Syria in 1926. He wrote several books about his time serving with some being more fictionalized than others.
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