A Diversity of Creatures

In 1917 Kipling joined the War Graves Commission. He published A Diversity of Creatures, a collection of stories mainly written before the outbreak of war, but including two "tales of '15", one of which ("Mary Postgate") has been seen as among the most important of his late stories. Kipling also published in newspapers a series of war articles about the Italian-Austrian front, The War in the Mountains.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was not yet 25 when he burst onto the literary scene in Londo...