Rudyard Kipling 
The New Army in Training (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

Published in 1915, this collection of short articles constitutes a bracing early history of the New Army, also known as Kitchener’s Army—or, more disparagingly, Kitchener’s Mob—the revolutionary all-volunteer army fielded by Britain after the outbreak of World War I. 

About the author

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a past master of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”