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Rudyard Kipling and the Great War - Dr Rodney Attwood

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Rudyard Kipling and the Great War - Dr Rodney Attwood. At the outbreak of the war Rudyard Kipling was a most popular author , he wrote propaganda pamphlets and stories during the war and some poetry. His only son John was killed at Loos in 1915 and his body was not found , Kipling spent a large part of his life after this trying to find out what...


'How the Great War ended' with Dr Rodney Attwood

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Dr Attwood's talk begins with looking at five British 'heroes' on the Western Front and elsewhere on the morning of 11 November, 1918; examines briefly the failure of early offensive plans; German mistakes and the entry of the United States; how the stalemate was finally broken in 1918; and analyses factors in the Allied victory including 'The H...