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Tommy Atkins: The Story of the English Soldier

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Tommy Atkins: The Story of the English Soldier - Laffin, John
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Tommy Atkins is the English soldier, who joking broke the cavalry of France at Minden, who singing marched with the Great Duke to the Danube, who grumbling shattered Napoleon's dreams at Waterloo, who sweating in his red coat tramped back and forth across Indis, who kept his six-rounds-to-the-minute at Mons, and who died in the mud at Passchendaele, the sands of the Western Desert, and the jungles of Burma. If his name has been eclipsed by his more illustrious commanders - Cromwell, Marlborough, Moore, Wolfe, Wellington, ...

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Tommy Atkins: The Story of the English Soldier 2011, The History Press Ltd, Stroud

ISBN-13: 9780752460666

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