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Kitchener's Mob is a classic English history text by James Norman Hall dealing with the life and times of Lord Kitchener. This brief narrative is by no means a complete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather, a story in outline,…
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I once wrote a short book about the Queen, Elizabeth II, Queen of Laughs, a bestseller in French, so they now think I’m a royal expert and invite me on TV and radio to comment on any royal event. When the Queen died, I was in the French media nonstop for two weeks.
After this marathon, I got a phone call from a lady: “I saw you on French TV; you’re the kind of speaker we like to invite to our museum.” She explained that it was the former home of James Norman Hall. I asked where it was.
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