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The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)"

by Ian Hay

★4.1/5
FictionHistorical FictionHistoryScience Fiction
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And so the drill goes on. All over the drab, dusty, gritty parade-ground, under the warm September sun, similar squads are being pounded into shape.

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