The Eyes of Asia

Description

This booklet contains articles originally published in 1917 in The Morning Post (bought by The Daily Telegraph in 1937). It consists of four letters, purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army at the time of World War I. They were on active service in Europe and Africa, 1915-18. The articles include: A Retired Gentleman; The Fumes of the Heart; The Private Account; A Trooper of Horse.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in Bombay, India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. He wrote tales and poems about the British in India and stories for children including The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories. Kipling's son John died in the First World War, at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, at age 18.