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PEN ROSE,
BERKHAMSTED.

March 23 1920

Dear John

I have spent a delightful
afternoon sitting out in the
arbour under the murmur
of innumerable bees, reading
through your South African
Forces at a good slogging
pace, and have now read
everything except the appendices.
It could not have been better
done. The tactical history is
perfectly clear, and is interwoven
with personal incidents and
the sense of the collective
heroism of it all, and is placed
in its setting in the bigger strategy
and issues which are finely touched in.