Mr Kipling's Army All the Queen's Men Author:Byron Farwell The outrageous, but often glorious, story of Britain's pre-World War I Army. — This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling... more » conditions under which they lived have gone largely unrecorded. Byron Farwell explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards.« less