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The memoirs of a British officer who served from the boer war to the Norway campaign in ww2, after which he was an Italian POW and finally Churchill‘s personal representative to republican China. A man of extreme courage and resilience but lacking in imagination, who despite being wounded 5+ times, losing an eye and a hand declared WW1 an enjoyable war. In many ways so different from modern sensibilities that his actions serves to alienate readers
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