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Edward Morlae
An American who served in the French Foreign Legion during World War I, he wrote from direct experience, giving his work an unusual immediacy. His best-known book offers a vivid, personal view of trench warfare, military routine, and the international mix of men in the Legion.
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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 known for A Soldier of the Legion, a work published in 1916 that draws on his service in the French Foreign Legion during World War I. Contemporary catalog records and later editions describe the book as an autobiographical account of a soldier's life in the Legion.
What makes his writing stand out is its firsthand perspective. Rather than treating the war from a distance, he writes from inside the ranks, focusing on daily hardship, comradeship, and the experience of Americans who fought under the French flag.
Very little biographical information about Morlae appears to be widely preserved online beyond his connection to this book and his wartime service. Even so, that single surviving work has given him a lasting place in early twentieth-century war writing.