I went through basic with Chris Jennings in ORANGE with the 1er REC ,his tale is full of inaccuracies about the people he did basic training with (he even uses their real names for some odd reason and others did not even exist) , people he said deserted during basic did not , his own achievements are highly over exaggerated and so on ,although his account of treatment of recruits was fairly accurate , basic was done in Orange which was very unusual and I think the 1er Rec were determined to turn the recruits out better than Castel...at any cost, I doubt Jennings could ever visit France or Legion reunions without repercussions. .....save your money ,"Marching With The Devil" by David Mason is more accurate.