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Edward Morlae
A veteran of the French Foreign Legion, he wrote from close to the front lines and gave readers a direct, vivid look at World War I. His work stands out for its sense of immediacy, discipline, and hard-earned experience.
2 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
A Soldier of the Legion
by Edward Morlae
About the author
Edward Morlae is best known for A Soldier of the Legion (1916), a firsthand wartime account centered on service in the French Foreign Legion during World War I. Reliable contemporary book records and public-domain editions identify him as the author of that memoir, which helped introduce English-language readers to the Legion's experience in the war.
Booksellers' descriptions of the 1916 first edition describe him as American-born and of French background, and note that he went to Paris in 1914 and enlisted in the Legion. In the book itself, he writes as a sergeant describing trench warfare, military routine, and the human strain of combat, giving the narrative its strong feeling of authenticity.
Very little widely documented biographical information about Morlae appears to survive beyond his wartime writing. Even so, A Soldier of the Legion remains a memorable window into the early years of World War I and the lives of foreign volunteers who fought in it.