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Great War Dust Jackets

Little, Brown 1930. Novel of service in Machine Gun Battery

Heinemann 1915. War reporting. Revised ed below. Hutchinson 1929 (from Andrew Harrison)

Star Books 1927 Cheap ed.. Jacket by Politzer. Precedes the UK ed. alongside

Hodder 1917. US Ambassador. A plea for more American involvement in the War.

OUP 1928 Early days of the RFC Air Station at Great Yarmouth during the War

Grosset & Dunlap 1934. Cheap rpt. Novel of a Vedette in Paris

Longmans 1934. 1st issue at 10/6 (from Nick Fletcher), 2nd issue at 5/-. Medical officer on the Western Front with 23rd Div. & afterwards in India.

Cassell 1934. The Commander of the Fifth Army describes the German breakthrough of March 1918. No ‘mea culpa’ here!
(from Nick Fletcher)

Benham 1921. Story of a Territorial Batt.,54th (East Anglian) Div. in Gallipoli & the Middle East, 1915-1918 written by their commanding officer (from Nick Fletcher)

Heer 1931. Novel (from Fons).

Appleton 1918. Mystery novel concerning the German secret service in 1918 (from Babylon Revisited)

Appleton 1917. Intrigue surrounds the assassination of a duke

(from Babylon Revisited)

Grosset & Dunlap 1926. Film from Gibbs’ novel ‘The Yellow Dove’ about a plane that makes secret flights over the enemy.

(from Mike’s Library)

Blackwood 1928. A memoir of Young-Herries of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers.

Appleton 1930. Canadian novel of a young man’s transition from idyllic village life to the front line.

Macmillan 1928. A history of spying from Ancient Greece to the Great War (from Between the Covers)

Allen & Unwin 1918. A Major in the Army Service Corps gives a day-by-day description of the whole campaign (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Arrowsmith 1931. History of those who have jumped in an emergency. A small section on the War.

Cross 1925 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Class 1902 by Ernst Glaeser Viking 1929. Jacket by Paul Wenck. Growing up in Germany during the War. Described as the Home Front equivalent of ‘All Quiet’

Below. 2 variant 1sts from Secker 1929

Bodley Head 1917 (2nd ed.),1917 & 1919. Freeman & Bennett’s satirical view of the War in the style of Pepys’ Diary. Illustrated by John Kettlewell.

Harper 1930. Stories with a fantasy element from this Norwegian author - no connection with the Roger Corman film of the same name!

(from Between the Covers)

Methuen 1919 (from Roger Joye)

The Story of the 29th Division by Capt. Stair Gillon Nelson 1925 A Record of Gallant Deeds (from Nick Fletcher)

below his History of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Nelson 1930

Doran 1919

Little, Brown 1926 & Hutchinson 1926 (from Andrew Harrison) An anti-war novel showing how a family adjusts to its returning children after the War.

Renwick of Otley1931. Magnificent wrap-around jacket by Norman Tennant for this howitzer battery record by Sergeant A. E. Gee & Corporal A. E. Shaw (see below)

Doran 1926. A novel covering 30 years through the War & the Russian Revolution (from Fons)

Blackwell 1934 The memoirs of an Intelligence Officer (from JRF)

Otto Babendiek by Gustav Frenssen Harrap 1930 An autobiographical novel partially dealing with his War experiences (from Fons)

The Pastor of Poggsee by Gustav Frenssen Harrap 1931. Jacket by J Gower Parks. German novel set in a village during the War.

Chatto 1919 (by John Galsworthy). A satirical novel about Government War Propaganda on the home front.

Melrose 1917 2nd ed. A rather optimistic view of the War’s likely conclusion.

Champion, Melbourne 1919. Jacket by Percy Leason.

(from JRF)

Through the Serbian Campaign by Gordon Gordon-Smith Hutchinson 1916. The retreat of the Serbian army as told by this War correspondent (from Andrew Harrison)

Methuen 1918 Short stories by a Lt. In 1st King Edwards Horse.

Constable 1919 2nd ed. The 1st edition, of a few months earlier, was heavily criticised by the PM Herbert Asquith. This edition was hurriedly issued with a stinging reply from French.