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Trumpeter for King and country
From: The Spectator
Date: 20041218
Author:Townsend, Juliet
Trumpeter for King and country THE LETTERS OF RUDYARD KIPLING: VOLUME V, 1920-1930, VOLUME VI, 1931-36 edited by Thomas Pinney Palgrave/Macmillan, £55 each, Volume V, pp. 584, Volume VI, pp. 527, ISBN 1403921318, ISBN 1403921326
It has become a commonplace of our time for us to eulogise the beautifully kept cemeteries maintained by the War Graves Commission, from the great necropolis at Tien Cot, which holds thousands of the dead of Passchendaele, to the little half-forgotten clusters of headstones in unexpected corners of the Middle East, or on the shores of some tiny beach at Gallipoli. As ...
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