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JOHN WATSON

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Midge Gillies: Army Wives [2016] hardback ZCLAS The unscrupulous Captain Rackham isMost families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives who made the arduous journey to the Crimean war and witnessed battle at close quarters. We hear the story of life in the Raj and the, often terrifying,