Kipling, Rudyard.

The Irish Guards in the Great War – The First Battalion.

Gloucestershire, Spellmount, 2008. 17 cm x 24.5 cm. 319 pages. Several black and white photographs and maps throughout. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following essays: 1914 Mons to La Bassée / 1916 The Salient to The Somme / 1918 Arras to the Armistice etc.

Kipling’s son, John, had, through his father’s connections, gained a commision into the Irish Guard despite having been initially ruled out of military service. He died during the fighting in the early days of World War One. When approached by the battalion to document their war history Kipling immediately set to work on this memento of his son’s and the battalion’s service. Kipling is reputed to have said of this work, “This will be my great work…It is done with agony and bloody sweat”.

• Keywords: 20th Century History · Military History · Rudyard Kipling · World Fair · World War One
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781862274044
• Inventory Number: 60541AB

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