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Mr. Kipling's Army

Name: Mr. Kipling's Army
Author: Byron Farwell
ISBN: 9780393013863

by Byron Farwell

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Overview

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, whose books include Queen Victoria's Little Wars, The Gurkhas, and, most recently, The Great War in Africa, explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards.

This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and their often appalling living conditions are largely unrecorded.