“The Barbarians”
by L. Ron Hubbard

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Publication date: December 1935

Original publication: Dime Adventure Magazine

Genre: Military & War

Story description: A Legionnaire’s philosophical view of the nature of war changes after avenging his comrade’s killers by flying into the maw of death and beheading a Berber chief.

Currently available as part of the Stories from the Golden Age series, in the title Hell’s Legionnaire.