Barrack-Room Ballads
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Soldiers fascinated Kipling long before WW1 - he had made his name with a poetry collection, Barrack-Room Ballads.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2016
Yet, there on Page 249 of Twain’s copy of Kipling’s “Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses,” Twain could not resist changing “heaved” to “hove.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2010
This is the Kipling who in one astounding year wrote most of his Barrack-Room Ballads, the novel The Light That Failed and seven short stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the completion of other, less important formalities, I was taken in charge by a sergeant who might have stepped out of any of the "Barrack-Room Ballads."
From Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall
"The Plain Tales From the Hills" and the best of his "Barrack-Room Ballads" were inspired by his youthful association with the large military garrison at this point.
From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis
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