A Soldier's Kipling
A Soldier's Kipling

Author: Edward J. Erickson

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1526718553

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Rudyard Kipling was one of the most versatile writers of the Victorian age a journalist, storyteller, historian and poet. One of the major subjects of his poetry was the British army and the way it waged its campaigns during Queen Victorias little wars, and it is this aspect of his writing that Edward Erickson explores in this absorbing and perceptive study.Kiplings military poems offer insights into the profession of arms and how soldiers were trained and fought in distant expeditionary campaigns they bring to life the world of the Victorian soldier in the most evocative way. Although not a soldier himself, Kipling wrote about timeless themes of military and wartime service, the experience of combat, unit cohesion and individual courage.A Soldiers Kipling is an original contribution to the understanding of Kiplings work and his times, and it should lead to a fresh appreciation of a facet of his writing that has not been focused on so closely before.

War Stories and Poems
War Stories and Poems

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780192836861

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This unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems provides critical comment on the ineptitude of the British in the Boer War. Including such stories as "Barrack-Room Ballads," this work provides tales of courage and adventure, as well as shameful episodes of retreat and failure.

Soldier Stories
Soldier Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-07-20

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Soldier Stories is a collection of short stories about British rule in India. Rudyard Kipling describes the various intricacies of British and Indian society. Contents: With the Main Guard, The Drums of the Fore and Aft, The Man Who Was, The Courting of Dinah Shad...

Mr. Kipling's Army
Mr. Kipling's Army

Author: Byron Farwell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780393304442

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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 explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards.

The Eyes of Asia
The Eyes of Asia

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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"A series of letters purporting to be written by an East Indian officer wounded in France to his relatives at home." - New York Times Book Review, Oct. 20, 1918.