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PRINCE AAGE OF DENMARK. A Royal Adventurer in the Foreign Legion. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. First edition. 8vo., orig. orange cloth with pictorial decoration in black, (6), 198pp. Ownership inscription otherwise about fine.
On publication Prince Aage's work received a good review in the NYT. The reviewer noted that the Prince convinced his father to let him resign from the Life Guard of Denmark and join the Foreign Legion, where ‘he was commissioned a captain in the adventurous and polyglot crew that is first in action wherever France fights. He sought excitement and found plenty of it. He went through several campaigns in Morocco, including the fierce battle against Abd-el Krim, and he was wounded and decorated for gallantry.' The Prince recounts the brutal conditions and ‘ruthless' tribesman that they encountered--the reviewer commenting ‘as far as it goes, Prince Aage's narrative is a capital piece of work.'