The Army without a Country

The book tells the World War I story of the Czechoslovakian Legion: Hungarians, Slovaks, Czechs, and later, a few Austrians and Poles, who lived around the borders of what eventually, through their valor, became Czechoslovakia. In order to fight on the Western Front the men could not travel either north or south; the plan was to ship the troops round the world in order to reach Bordeaux and Le Havre from southwest Russia.