Beau Geste is a romantic adventure of the French Foreign Legion and is set in the searing heat of the Sahara desert. Published to great acclaim in 1924, it has remained a popular period classic of great appeal to readers of all ages ever since. Drawing on personal experience, P.C. Wren brilliantly evokes the ethos and pride of the Leion and the often wild lives and loyalties of the legionnaires. Beau Geste was the subject of a famous film starring Gary Cooper an Ray Milland in 1939, an was more recently released as a film in 1966.