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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Military history in a class by itself.,
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This review is from: The Irish Guards In The Great War: The Second Battalion: Edited and Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers (Hardcover)
In the aftermath of Kipling's loss of his 18-year old son in World War One, the famous writer was asked to write a history of his son's regiment. He consented at once and began immediately, embarking on a task which would take five and a half years.The devotion and the skill of one of the great masters of the language are manifest here, in what Kipling called "my great work...done with agony and bloody sweat", producing a work that stands as a literary masterpiece, as well as superb military history. Sarpedon is to be congratulated for this excellent edition of an unjustly neglected work, which is in two volumes, one for each battalion, reissued with rare photos and the original excellent maps. (The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.) |
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The Irish Guards In The Great War: The Second Battalion: Edited and Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers by Rudyard Kipling (Hardcover - November 21, 1997)
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