Military Mindlessness
An Informal Compendium
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. January 1993
Book
Hardback
286 pages
978-1-56000-105-8 (ISBN)
Description
With the exception of the two Hemingway pieces, this anthology contains poems, anecdotes and accounts about the British Military beginning with the Boer War of 1899 and ending with the Falklands conflict, Northern Ireland and the Gulf. It contains works from major names like Kipling, Wyndham Lewis, Graves, T.E. Lawrence, then Waugh and Betjeman but in addition there are quite a few stories from previously unpublished people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56000-105-8 (9781560001058)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Horricks, Raymond
Content
The General: Siegfried Sassoon, Introduction by Raymond Horricks, 19th Century Mindlessness, The War To End All Wars 1914-18, Mindlessness in Peacetime A World in Turmoil 1939-45, Modern Mindlessness 1945 Onwards