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France at War: on the Frontier of Civilization (Unabridged)
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Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by:
Frank Phillips
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September 2022
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1 hour 39 minutes
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In 1915, as the 'Great War' (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting French armed forces. By then he was already winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (the first writer in English to be so honoured). He published his observations in articles in the Daily Telegraph in England, and in the New York Sun. At that stage of the war nationalistic sentiments were running high but the true cost of war was beginning to be understood 'at home'.
The collection of journalistic pieces is preceded by a poem, 'France', that had been published before the outbreak of war (in 1913) which has a more overblown jingoistic feel to it than the reflections on war itself. The poem does, though, show Kipling's love of France, as well as his sense of the destiny of imperial dreams.
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