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13%OFFRudyard Kipling - The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion - 9781862274044 - V9781862274044
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The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion

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Description for The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion Paperback. The Irish Guards in the Great War Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 169 x 21. Weight in Grams: 764.

In August 1914 Kipling's son John, not yet seventeen, volunteered for a commission in the Army, but was initially refused as under age and with poor sight. Kipling pulled some strings and his son was killed at the battle of Loos a short time after. Asked to write a regimental history by the Irish Guards HQ, five years later, this masterpiece appeared. Said Kipling, 'This will be my great work... It is done with agony and bloody sweat.' This edition in two volumes is complete with the orginal maps and appendices and a foreword by George Webb, Editor of The ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862274044
SKU
V9781862274044
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Ref
99-10

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