The Irish Guards in the Great War: Edited and Compiled From Their Diaries and Papers.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Item Number: 126190

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.

First edition of Kipling’s tribute the great regiment in the ranks of which he lost his son, John. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth and paper spine labels. In near fine condition.

“One could be assured that when Mr. Kipling turned his hand to a regimental history the result would be very different to the ordinary. The particular invention wherewith he has enriched this book is a sort of chorus—the comment of the private soldier upon the events narrated, which is witty and effective. Mr. Kipling has also brought to bear his magic upon that most matter-of-fact of records, the battalion war diary, and has made it live... he has composed a noble tribute to the great regiment in the ranks of which he lost his son" (Cyril Falls, War Books, London 1930).