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Beau Geste

Book • 1924
Published in 1924, 'Beau Geste' is set before World War I and details the adventures of the Geste brothers—Michael, Digby, and John—as they join the French Foreign Legion in Algeria.

The novel explores themes of duty, decency, and the English upper-class values of the time.

It provides a detailed and fairly authentic description of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion and has been adapted for the screen several times.

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Quentin Tarantino
as a book he read before watching the movie adaptation.
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