New Army in Training : 150th Anniversary Edition by Rudyard Kipling (2015, Hardcover) online kaufen

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PublisherUnicorn Publishing Group

ISBN-101910500046

ISBN-139781910500040

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Edition150

Book TitleNew Army in Training : 150th Anniversary Edition

Number of Pages80 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicMilitary / General

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorRudyard Kipling

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Length5.5 in

Item Width7.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Table Of ContentI. Men at Work The North in Blue Duties and Developments II. Iron into Steel With Illustrations What the Army Does and Thinks III. Guns and Supply Service Conditions The Gunner at Home Mechanism and Mechanics The Humour of It IV. Canadians in Camp Camp Gossip Engineers and Appliances An Unrelated Detachment The Vanguard of a Nation V. Indian Troops Screw-Guns The Mule Lines The Inn of Good-Byes Greatheart and Christiana VI. Territorial Battalions Guarding a Railway Pride and Prejudice The Secret of the Services The Real Question

Edition DescriptionAnniversary

SynopsisA collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles based describing Lord Kitchener's volunteer army, written just a couple of months after the death of his son at the Battle of Loos., On August 4th 1914, following the German invasion of Belgium, Britain declared war on Germany. During the autumn, Kipling wrote six articles about the training of the new British troops who had volunteered to fight. These were published in the Daily Telegraph in December 1914. Early in 1915 they were collected into a small booklet, published in the United Kingdom as The New Army in Training (price sixpence), and in the United States as The New Army. The articles include: The Men at Work; Iron into Steel; Guns and Supply; Canadians in Camp; Indian Troops; Territorial Battalions. Published to co-incide with the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth. Beautifully packaged - a hardback with dustjacket and a ribbon marker. Cover image: Volunteers Drilling in the Courtyard Of Burlington House by Andrew Carrick Gow (RA) 1915, In the early days of World War I, patriotic feeling ran high--as did confidence in what was largely a newly created British fighting force. In autumn of 1914, Britain's most popular writer, Rudyard Kipling, wrote six articles for the Daily Telegraph about the training of the newly mobilized British troops, all of whom had signed up as volunteers almost the moment Britain declared war. The articles described the men in their full glow of youth and enthusiasm, and waxed poetic about their strength, courage, and dashing appearance. The patriotic tone of the articles hides a painful reality: they were written just months after Kipling's own eighteen-year-old-old son had been killed at the Battle of Loos. Early in 1915, the articles were collected in a small booklet, published for sixpence as The New Army in Training . By that time, it had already become apparent that the war was not going to be won quickly, or easily--and that in fact it was going to exact a horrifying toll of blood and treasure. Reproduced here, on the 150th anniversary of Kipling's birth and the centennial of the book's original publication, The New Army in Training calls up the almost unfathomable confidence and enthusiasm of the early days of the war, helping us get beyond our historical perspective and see the past as it was actually lived.