This book should be required reading for young generations. A full history lesson reserve, modesty, poetry, intellectual honesty and respect for mankind. No need to be a history buff to love and war stories, as St. Mark us with long historical and boring descriptions of these events (Concentration Camp, Indochina, Algeria) on which everything and do anything was written. It is more a reflection of the interior we offer, with the reflection of the experience of time and distance. History lesson and courage, for he who has experienced the camps, deprivation, disease and the prison offers a fantastic lesson in courage, tenacity, in a French language that beautifully reflects her love for this country. Great scholar, scholar, poet, he left us a book cry from what I was expecting from a former Legionnaire business. To eat without waiting for much better understand what was our history, while allowing herself to enter the beauty of the French language.