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The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers: Paperback: Createspace: 9781500521837: 17 Jul 2014: ?When peace comes,? wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was … More...

The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers: Paperback: Createspace: 9781500521837: 17 Jul 2014: ?When peace comes,? wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he rose to the rank of lance-sergeant, ?Saki will give us the most wonderful of all the books about the war. But that book of the war will not be written; for Munro has died for King and country. In this volume are his last tales. And it is because these tales, brilliant and e. ?When peace comes,? wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he rose to the rank of lance-sergeant, ?Saki will give us the most wonderful of all the books about the war. But that book of the war will not be written; for Munro has died for King and country. In this volume are his last tales. And it is because these tales, brilliant and elusive as butterflies, hide, rather than reveal, the character of the man who wrote them, give but a suggestion of his tenderness and simplicity, of his iron will, of his splendour in the grip of war, that it is my duty to write these pages about him, now that he lies in the kind earth of France. It is but to do what his choice of a pen-name makes me sure he himself would have done for a friend. Anthologies (non-Poetry), , , , , , , , , , , ,<

ISBN: 9781500521837

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], "When peace comes," wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he r… More...

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], "When peace comes," wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he rose to the rank of lance-sergeant, "Saki will give us the most wonderful of all the books about the war." But that book of the war will not be written; for Munro has died for King and country. In this volume are his last tales. And it is because these tales, brilliant and elusive as butterflies, hide, rather than reveal, the character of the man who wrote them, give but a suggestion of his tenderness and simplicity, of his iron will, of his splendour in the grip of war, that it is my duty to write these pages about him, now that he lies in the kind earth of France. It is but to do what his choice of a pen-name makes me sure he himself would have done for a friend., Anthologies (non-poetry)<

ISBN: 9781500521837

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], "When peace comes," wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he r… More...

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], "When peace comes," wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he rose to the rank of lance-sergeant, "Saki will give us the most wonderful of all the books about the war." But that book of the war will not be written; for Munro has died for King and country. In this volume are his last tales. And it is because these tales, brilliant and elusive as butterflies, hide, rather than reveal, the character of the man who wrote them, give but a suggestion of his tenderness and simplicity, of his iron will, of his splendour in the grip of war, that it is my duty to write these pages about him, now that he lies in the kind earth of France. It is but to do what his choice of a pen-name makes me sure he himself would have done for a friend., Anthologies (non-poetry)<

ISBN: 9781500521837

The Toys of Peace, and other papers Toys-of-Peace-and-Other-Papers~~Saki Literature>Literature>Literature Paperback, CreateSpace Publishing

ISBN: 9781500521837

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