Jean Lartéguy

1920–2011 · French novelist, journalist & war correspondent

Jean Lartéguy was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty. He served with the Free French Forces and later became a war correspondent, chiefly for Paris Match. His 1960 novel Les Centurions, about French paratroopers after Indochina, became a bestseller and was filmed as Lost Command (1966). The Marcus Flavinius letter first appears as its epigraph.

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“If We Should Have to Leave Our Bleached Bones on These Desert Sands in Vain, Then Beware the Anger of the Legions”

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