War Stories and Poems. Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Rutherford

War Stories and Poems



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War Stories and Poems Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Rutherford ebook
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Page: 416
ISBN: 9780199555505

This sardonic American comment on British ineptitude in the Boer War comes from 'The Captive', one of Kipling's many stories about war. He wrote confident tales of adventure on the imperial frontiers, in Afghanistan, Burma, and the Sudan. But he also, in Barrack-Room Ballads, provided wry perspectives from men in the ranks; and he did not flinch from recording shameful episodes such as the panic-stricken flight of an English regiment in 'The Drums of the Fore and Aft'. Kipling was dismayed by the inefficiency permeating the Army, and his satirical exposures of incompetence foreshadow some of the protest literature of the First World War. That war, in which his only son was killed on his ...

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