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Sunday breakfast at Baronrigg brings a houseful of guests under the firm direction of Tom Birnie, a Scottish landowner who insists on taking them to church. Dry humour runs through the gathering, alongside questions about Tom's marriage to Diana Carrick. She once broke off an engagement to Eric Bethune to marry Tom, and Eric still resents him. Ian Hay begins his World War I novel with these personal tensions and the customs of country house society.
The military scenes turn to Eric's command of a battalion and his enthusiasm for ceremonial discipline, cleanliness and regimental pride. At a farmhouse in Picardy, he argues that initiative matters more than a brigadier's elaborate timetable, while his friend worries about the practical demands of battle. Readers interested in the relationship between character and leadership will find a story that connects social comedy with the pressures of wartime service.
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- Ian Hay
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- 185
- Language
- English
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