Great War Dust Jackets
Little Brown 1941. A novel in which the the hero tries to recover his memories of the war after being struck by a shell. (from Fons)
2 somewhat religious romances from Grace Hill (Lutz). Both Grosset & Dunlap 1919. In the Red Signal, Hilda foils the plans of German Spies and falls in love with a young engineer. In the Search love blossoms on the battlefield between a nurse & a heroic member of the Salvation army! (from Fons)
Doran 1919. Supernatural story of a society woman who loses her son in the war and tries to contact him through a medium (from Babylon Revisited)
John Lane 1924. Jacket by Claire Leighton. Novel, part of which draws on the author’s time as a WAAC in the War (from Persephone Books)
G & D 1929
(from Chris Johnson)
Putnam (US) 1937
(from David & Helen Pritchard)
Cape 1931. Intervention 1918 -
Scribner 1916. An ordinary Italian family’s life is turned to tragedy by the War. Touches on the efforts to keep Italy neutral (from Fons)
Hodder 1914 & Hodder 1916. Hocking was a Cornish born church minister who produced over 100 novels, around half a dozen of which used the War as background. Although too old to fight he did visit the front to speak directly to the soldiers.
Stratford Co 1929 A Red-
Appleton 1919. The author’s time in the 165th Inf. AEF, part of the Rainbow Division. Most of the soldiers were drawn from Irish American New Yorkers (from William Erti)
Hutchinson 1919 with a foreword by H. G. Wells. The major has a magic ring which renders him invisible (from Babylon Revisited)
US edition below Doran 1919
Hodder 1926. Post-
Britton 1919. Telling the folks at home what the soldiers will be like when they return (from Warwick Books)
Newnes 1938. Fiction (from Renzo)
Erskine Macdonald 1918. Poems from a Lt. in the Devonshires (Vergette-
A. & C. Black 1920. Well illustrated account of the Merchant Navy during the War.
Melrose 1916 With the 2nd Light Horse at Galipolli (from Codexco Ltd)
Knopf 1920 1st US (fp Methuen 1919 in UK) Herbert served with the Hawke Batt., Royal
Naval Div. & wrote 2 volumes of War poetry. This novel follows a young officer from
Gallipoli to France where he is eventually court-
My Home in the Field of Honour by Frances Wilson Huard Doran 1916. Life in a chateau during the Great Retreat (from Fons)
The Ladies Road by Pamela Hinkson Gollancz 1932 Outstanding novel showing the effects of the war on 2 Irish & English families & how the women suffered as much as the men at the front.
British Regiments at the Front by Reginald Hodder Hodder 1914 What they did before the War.
Liveright 1930. A vivid account of the bloodshed of trench warfare much praised by the New York Times (from Helen & David Pritchard)
Lippincott 1919. A factual account of the SA girls at the front (from Babylon Revisited)
Harvard University Press 1916. Their experiences drawn from letters & diaries (from JRF)
Hutchinson 1931 (prev. pub. anonymously by Arnold in 1919). The MP author was wounded & captured at Mons & subsequently served as an intelligence officer in Egypt & Mesopotamia.
Houghton Mifflin 1937. Novel of the fate of a German American family in Wisconsin during the War (from Fons)
Hutchinson 1918. An account of the Naval Operations off Zeebrugge & Ostend
(from the Bookshop on the Heath)
Alexander Gardner 1918. The work of the YMCA behind the lines.
Medici 1923. At Ypres with the 6th Div. & then to the Somme with the 56th Div. (from Tom Donovan)
Allen & Unwin 1920. A record of the movement of the 17th Divisional Supply Column from St. Omer to Ventimiglia in Italy (from David & Helen Pritchard)