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My Boy Jack?: The Search for Kipling's Only Son (Hardcover)

by Tonie Holt (Author), Valmai Holt (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 126 pages
  • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd (25 April 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0850524075
  • ISBN-13: 978-0850524079
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.2 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,132,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Guide books and biographies associated with the First and Second World Wars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written and deeply moving, 7 Mar 1999
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The English writer Rudyard Kipling spent the last twenty years of his life in an obsessive, fruitless search for his only son John (Jack), who had gone missing during the Battle of Loos in 1915. John was barely 18, had only got into the army through his father's influence (he was medically unfit), and was last seen struggling through the carnage, shot in the mouth and weeping. His body was never found.

Major and Mrs Holt are renowned experts on the First World War and this is probably their best book yet. (The title is taken from Kipling's poem 'Have You News of My Boy Jack?') Many biographies of Rudyard Kipling describe the loss of John, but this is the first biography of John himself. Through painstaking and meticulous research, the Holts have built a detailed reconstruction of John's life and character. The story is told with honesty and compassion, but without lapsing into sentimentality. It is fascinating, compulsively readable, and deeply touching. The book also contains new evidence to suggest that, sadly, the recent "discovery" of John Kipling's grave is almost certainly erroneous.

Those who have read other books by Major and Mrs Holt will be familiar with their warm but down-to-earth narrative style. In this case, however, they have not only written a first class biography of a tragic victim of the Great War, they have, in some small measure, given John Kipling his life back. -- Rebecca Mazonowicz (author of 'This Wretched Splendour')

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