The Spanish Foreign Legion: 'the Bridegrooms of Death'

Sometimes a story is recounted that leaves you amazed at the measures some men will go to in order to find purpose and meaning in their lives, and this is one such book! Mark Gee’s moving, powerful and no holds barred account of his time as a Spanish Foreign Legion Mercenary and ‘Bridegroom of Death’, is amazing. His time serving in ‘Pelotón’, the infamous and phenomenally vicious penal work section, is in itself an extraordinary tale of hardship and brutality that is hard to comprehend. Brutal and frank about what it was to be one of the Spanish Army’s most harshly disciplined elite troops, this book is nevertheless a deeply emotional and moving rendition of one man’s desperate search for the truth, and how he found it.