My Boy Jack
by David Haig
My Boy Jack is a play by the English actor and writer David Haig, first staged at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 1997. Set as war with Germany approaches, it shows Rudyard Kipling pushing his badly short-sighted son John into the First World War. ITV screened a television version in 2007.
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- Nick Hern Books, 1997
The first edition of My Boy Jack by David Haig was published in London by Nick Hern Books in 1997. We track 1 edition.
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Who published the first edition of My Boy Jack?
The first edition of My Boy Jack by David Haig was published in London by Nick Hern Books in 1997.
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