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1917 BLACK WATCH Private Maclean GORDON HIGHLANDERS Scotland Military FIFE - WWI
1917 BLACK WATCH Private Maclean GORDON HIGHLANDERS Scotland Military FIFE - WWI
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PTE. JOHN MACLEAN OF THE BLACK WATCH AND OTHER SKETCHES
By Lockhart Landels Ireland
Published by Fifeshire Advertiser, 1917. First Edition. Hardback, 8vo, patterned endpapers. 124 pages. Illustrated.
Despite his short life, which ended tragically in France in 1916, Lockhart Landels Ireland left behind a wealth of stories, sketches, articles and poems, many of which are brought together here. His brief tales of Private MacLean are miniature word pictures of the effects of the war in humble Fife homes.
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A good first edition. The cloth binding is good. The patterned endpapers are very good. No writing or names to the book. All contents present and in good clean condition.
The Great War (1914–1918) was seen by many Scottish Baptists as a just war waged by the British Empire to protect smaller nations against German militarism. Many young men volunteered for war service to do their bit to defeat an unscrupulous foe that had inflicted such brutality on the civil population of Belgium. One of these volunteers was Lockhart L. Ireland a gifted writer and committed Baptist. Through his war fiction he gives real insight into the brutality of war but his other writings suggest a glory set over and against this. He was not disillusioned about the war's purpose and to die in such conflict would be a noble act. He is an important figure who eloquently presents commonly held views at the time and how far many Baptists had come to identify British political war aims with Christian duty.
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