Soldiering on - poems of military life

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Spisovateľ: Vernon Scannell
Vydavateľ: Robson Books
Rok vydania: 1989
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Katalogové číslo: I8068

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Just as Kipling´s Barrack-Room Ballads spoke for the Tommy Atkins of Queen Vitoria´s reign, so Vernon Scannell´s remarkable new book-length sequence of poems- Soldiering On- voices the often shocking, sometimes absurd and, on occasion even comic, aspects of military life in the ranks this century... 72 strán, obal, tvrdá väzba

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