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Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier''s soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable between the two men and a tragedy unfolds with concentrated and ferocious power.

James Kennaway served in a Highland regiment himself, and his feeling for ''tunes of glory, for the glamour and brutality of army life gives added authenticity and humour to this, his first and most famous novel. He died in a car crash at the tragically early age of forty.

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      Publisher: Canongate Books
      Publication Date: 01/07/2010
      ISBN13: 9780862412234, 978-0862412234
      ISBN10: 0862412234
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier''s soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable between the two men and a tragedy unfolds with concentrated and ferocious power.

      James Kennaway served in a Highland regiment himself, and his feeling for ''tunes of glory, for the glamour and brutality of army life gives added authenticity and humour to this, his first and most famous novel. He died in a car crash at the tragically early age of forty.

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