Great War Dust Jackets
Stalky’s Reminiscences by L C Dunsterville Cape 1928. Recollections from Kipling's friend & commander of Dunsterforce
A Maid and a Million Men by James Dunton Grosset & Dunlap 1919
A Subaltern’s War by Charles Edmonds (Carrington) Davies 1929. Part of the Soldiers Tales series
The Big Fight by David Fallon Watt 1918
Over the Top & First Call by Arthur Guy Empey Putnam 1917 & 1918
When Armageddon Came, Scots Guard, Love and Strife & Way of Revelation by Wilfrid
Ewart . The US edition of ‘Revelation’ is taken from an old E-
Giong Across by M St Helier Evans Johns (Newport) 1952 with 9th Welch in the Butterfly division. Outside the time limit but such a nice jacket (from Tom Donovan)
Somme Harvest by Giles Eyre Jarrolds 1938. A Rifleman in the summer of 1916. Indispensable memoir.
The Waste Land by T S Eliot Boni & Liveright 1922. If this isn’t about the war then I don’t know what is! (from Sotheby’s)
With Our Soldiers in France by Sherwood Eddy Associated Press 1918
General Headquarters by Von Falkenhayn Hutchinson 1919. German high command viewpoint of the war
Ben the War Horse by Walter Dyer Holt 1938 (f.p. 1919) The story of the horse that won the Croix de Guerre with the Marines (from Fons)
Escapes & Adventures by Wallace Ellison Readers Union 1935 (fp. Blackwood 1928)
Escapes from various German camps
War Books by Cyril Falls Peter Davies 1930. Highly opinionated but essential guide. A shame it came out so early, missing many essential titles. Bob Wyatt produced an enlarged version in 1989. (from Nick Fletcher)
McCaw, Stevenson 1922. History of the 36th Ulster Div. In the Great War
The German Spy System by William Le Queux Hodder 1915 (fp 1914) Jacket by Edmund Blampied (from Andrew Hall)
The Tunnellers of Holzminden by H G Durnford Cambridge 1930 2nd ed. One of the most daring escapes of the War (from William Erti)
The copy below (from Cat’s Cradle Books) is also described as the same 1930 ed (fp 1920)
Inside Constantinople by Lewis Einstein Murray 1917 (from Geoffrey Miller)
The Second Twentieth by Capt. W R Elliot Gale & Polden 1920 A workmanlike account (‘having no literary aspirations’ said Cyril Falls). Illustrated by Sidney Court
Give ‘Way to the Right by Chris Emmett Naylor 1934. With the AEF (from JRF)
Appleton 1922 (this may be a later imp.) This outstanding War novel was a huge seller at the time. Graphic battle scenes.
Bodley Head 1921 (5th imp.) The ex. RAF Major & Kent & England Test cricketer recalls his time as a POW & escapee from German & Palestinian camps.
We Dive at Dawn by Kenneth Edwards Rich & Cowan 1939. Submarine warfare
Davies 1930. 4th imp.
Hutchinson 1939. Ewing ran the Admiralty cryptanalysis section from Room 40. Their deciphering of the Zimmerman telegram in 1917 was thought to have been a major reason for America joining the War.