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Tag Archives: Gurkhas
What about the Gurkhas?
It’s unfashionable to quote Kipling, so I will. I have recently acquired a rather nice Folio Society edition of Kipling’s selected verse. In his wonderful poem “The Ballad of East and West” we find this splendid line: “So thou must … Continue reading
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