The author Thomas Gast reports on his service with the Jungle Regiment of the French Foreign Legion in the green hell of Guyana from 1985 to 1987. But that's not all. Gast takes unique paths and provides extraordinary insights into this elite unit. He also gives voice to other eyewitnesses in his book. Go where others would never go! The French Foreign Legion in Guyana - then, in the midst of it, and today. Whether it’s the trench warfare of 1914-1918, the founding of the first jungle combat school of the Foreign Legion in 1986 deep in the rainforest of French Guiana, or the nerve-wracking battle of a highly modern and flexible troop against illegal gold miners as part of Operation Harpy launched in 2008: Thomas Gast unites all of this in a single work. This book is completed with a foreword by General Pierre Chav.