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Issue Details: First known date: 1958... 1958 The Hollow Square
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  • Also published with two other novels and two short stories in a multi-title work, by Odhams Press, London, 1959, in Odhams Man's Book series.
  • Epigraph: 'No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.' La Rochefoucauld, Maxims.
  • Epigraph: 'I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch,' the Colour-Sergeant said. / 'For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, / The regiment's in 'ollow square - they're hangin' him today; / They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, / An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'." Rudyard Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads, 1896.

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  • 1939-1945
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