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Smithy Abroad
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781667666914
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the dust-choked parade grounds of the Cape to the sweltering cantonments of India, the rank-and-file of Britain's Edwardian army turned soldiering into an art form - part boast, part grumble, part tall tale.
A wily private and his French-studying barrack chum hold court in the canteen and cot-room, spinning yarns of regimental cricket matches gone wrong, pickpockets in uniform, bogus inventors, football grudges, and the curious fate of a miserly old sergeant who counted his shillings one time too many. Between the jokes glimmer darker moments - a baptism under fire, a suppressed book, a quiet act of honour no drill manual ever described.
Written in the pungent Cockney of the marching ranks and laced with the sly, world-weary humour of a man who had worn the khaki himself, these twenty-four sketches capture the forgotten everyday of the Tommy abroad at the twilight of the British Empire.
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