Mr. Kipling's Army: All the Queen's Men - Softcover

Farwell, Byron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393304442 ISBN 13: 9780393304442

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Farwell Byron

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Highly readable . . . witty and entertaining.

Eye-opening . . . extravagant . . . lively.

A thumping good read.

An extraordinarily useful reference for those who wish to understand the British Empire at flood tide. I cannot recommend it highly enough.--William Manchester

A delightful and extraordinarily well-informed book.

Reseña del editor:

The outrageous, but often glorious, story of Britain's pre-World War I Army. This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions under which they lived have gone largely unrecorded. Byron Farwell explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0393304442
• ISBN 13: 9780393304442
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258