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I re-read this in the wake of writing an introduction and afterword to a forthcoming edition of Julian Maclaren-Ross’s humorous yet melancholy Memoirs of the Forties, which could be described as a 1940s Withnail & I.
First published in 1944, The Stuff To Give The Troops collects his often very brief short stories about his far-from-heroic experiences as a conscript in the British army during World War II. They’re written in a conversational style that still feels fresh and modern. So too does their jaundiced tone, which prefigures M*A*S*H and Catch-22.
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