OutboardCap’s Reviews > Les Centurions > Status Update

For Lartéguy, the tragedy of Dien Bien Phu wasn't the men wasted, the empire ended, or the nation layed low, but that he could no longer as easily have sex with Asian women.


He's a funny character, this guy, very transparent, not at all subtle, but he's also very authentic. You can see his heart and really engage with the man through the text.