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The Magnificent Micks

Allan Mallinson THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR (THE SECOND BATTALION) by Rudyard Kipling, edited by George Webb Spellmount, £24.95, pp. 223 T wo outstanding regimental......

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