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Discuss Frank Kitson at the The Book Club forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; It would be wrong for me to point out that there are Kitson books available ...
  1. 29-10-2009, 19:38 #21
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    It would be wrong for me to point out that there are Kitson books available for download from Mininova. So I won't.
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  2. 29-10-2009, 19:39 #22
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    Quote Originally Posted by kabulronin
    PW.O many thanks, useful information.
    WorldCat gives a list of libraries that have a copy:
    http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1188388...=brief_results

    (Note though not all these libraries will take part in an inter-library loan. At least one will as that's how I got to read it)
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  3. 29-10-2009, 19:46 #23
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    Quote Originally Posted by kabulronin
    BB, I'm in the colonies.
    OK - so here's what you do. Leave Baltimore, fly to UK, join the British Army and get yourself down to your local AEC.

    Acquire books.

    Go AWOL.

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  4. 29-10-2009, 20:09 #24
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    Noooooooooo, one stint in the British Army was more than enough and besides I don't think you can enlist at 50. mind you with my boyish goodlooks I could lie and get away with it.
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  5. 29-10-2009, 22:22 #25
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    Quote Originally Posted by kabulronin
    Noooooooooo, one stint in the British Army was more than enough and besides I don't think you can enlist at 50. mind you with my boyish goodlooks I could lie and get away with it.
    Why not? I'm a mere 9 months off 50 and I'm still serving! The boyish good looks were reserved for my earlier service however.
    The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the
    time
    Of the explosion - or was that last week's? Difficult to keep
    track:
    Everything's a bit askew, like the twisted pickets of the
    security gate, the wreaths,
    That approximate the spot where I'm told the night patrol
    went through.

    'Gate' by Ciaran Carson
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  6. 30-10-2009, 00:14 #26
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    Quote Originally Posted by PsyWar.Org
    "Gangs and Counter Gangs" is a tough one to find and usually sells for big money. I've seen it twice on eBay over the last three or four years and was outbidded each time.
    Just looked for it on www.abebooks.com : cheapest I found was around £200.

    That'll be rarity value, though.

    No disrespect to a very wily old soldier intended, but he was no Clausewitz.

    If the book was full of eternal truths, it would still be in print, and you'd get it for the price of a beer.
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  7. 30-10-2009, 08:27 #27
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    Quote Originally Posted by kabulronin
    I wonder if we could get someone to photocopy it.....

    It was said that a Cpl in 2 Para carried a fabloned copy of "The Forgotten Soldier" in his Bergan......
    :D Probably true! And if you still have a copy of that other peice of required reading - Devil's Guard - you might consider selling it: for the prices it goes for on the interweb you could afford one of Kitson's books. (Perhaps I should have fabloned my Devil's Guard, it's in shit state.)

    A Rhodesian friend who lives nearby has all of Kitson's books. I'll ask whether he waqnts to sell when he's back from Afghanistan, but I doubt it - he's a book freak like me.
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  8. 30-10-2009, 09:12 #28
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    By a strange coincidence, I have 'Warfare as a Whole' sitting on my desk even now! I was reading it yesterday. I also have 'Gangs and Countergangs' - autographed too. And LIO.
    Frank was my Coy commander in RB, then Col etc. Can't claim friendship, but we did speak often.

    May be worth contacting RGJ regimental museum in Winchester ( other museums and regiments are available) as I believe they did have some copies in gift shoppe.
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  9. 02-11-2009, 10:30 #29
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    I have an American publishing of Low Intesnity Operations published by

    Hailer Publishing
    Box 7400
    St Pete FL 33734
    info@hailerpublishing.com

    ... they may have publishe dhis other books.
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  10. 03-11-2009, 03:21 #30
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    Re: Frank Kitson

    kabulronin,

    If you are in Baltimore, it may be worth your time to hop down to DC and check out the Library of Congress:

    http://www.loc.gov/
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