Murray, Edmund

Churchill's Legionnaire - Edmund Murray

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ISBN 13:: 9781913491253
author:: Murray, Edmund
format:: Hardback
publisher:: Unicorn Publishing Group
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2021
Pages:: 160
Dimensions:: 21.3 x 15 x 2 centimetres (0.47
Genre:: History, General, Biography,
Condition:: New
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Churchill's Legionnaire Edmund Murray is a biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill's close friend and bodyguard. In 1937, at just nineteen years old, Murray left his comfortable life in London to join the French Foreign Legion for five years. He underwent rigorous training in France and Algeria before serving in Morocco and Indochina. Murray's experiences during World War II were marked by a strong sense of duty, which led him to try to leave the Legion to join the Allied forces but was thwarted at every attempt. This book offers rare insights into Legion life, including accounts of friendships forged in exceptional circumstances that would last a lifetime. It also documents Murray's unique wartime experience and his later role as bodyguard to Sir Winston Churchill. Through Murray's story, this biography sheds light on an extraordinary chapter in British history, revealing the complexities of being an Englishman in a French organization during a time of global conflict.

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