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The Skipper's War: Dragon School, Oxford & The Great War

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The Skipper's War: Dragon School, Oxford & The Great War - Devitt, Desmond, and Stewart, Rory (Foreword by)
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Charles 'Skipper' Lynam, the celebrated preparatory school headmaster at the Dragon School, Oxford, during the First World War, inspired a generation of his pupils as they found themselves caught up in the conflict. This book tells the story of the school's wartime years and the various fronts on which its boys were involved. It traces the roots of a school founded by Oxford dons for their children, its idiosyncratic ways and the extraordinary relationship Skipper Lynam forged with his boys, some of whom (in former pupil ...

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The Skipper's War: Dragon School, Oxford & The Great War 2022, Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9781785513039

Hardcover