Tunes of Glory
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Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict in inevitable between the two men and a tragedy unfolds with concentrated and ferocious power.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0862412234
ISBN13:9780862412234
Release Date:July 2010
Publisher:Canongate Books
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"
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Tunes of Glory has stood up well over the years. Perhaps no other Scots literary work since the war has explored in such depth the issue of Scots identity and the relationship of Scotsman to hearth, home, and Great Britain. The duty of military service in a society still dependent upon class, ritual, and an overmasculinized sense of obligation, sets the stage for conflict between two visions of Scotland, two visions of Britain, and two senses of the fading empire. It was faithfully made into a stunning film with Alec Guinness, John Mills, and Gordon Jackson.
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