Kitchener

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2020-01-28 07:51
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2001
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Kitchener
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Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
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No
Biography: 

As England's Secretary of State for War, a cabinet minister, Kitchener expanded the British army from twenty to seventy divisions between 1914 and 1916, hence the reference in "All the Dead Pilots" to "a mob of soldiers" (514).

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