Great War Dust Jackets

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by V B Ibanez Constable 1919. & A L Burt Photoplay ed. (late 1920s?) Novel

In Parenthesis by David Jones Faber 1937. If you only read one war book ...

Angus & Robertson 1935 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

3 versions of Rupert Hughes novel about a prize-fighter who reluctantly goes to the front only to become a hero. Filmed with Richard Barthelmess as the fighter.  Readers Union (1928) (from Jeremy Carson) & Grosset & Dunlap 1930 & 1927

The Desrt Column by Ion Idriess Angus & Robertson 1944, 1951 & 1932.. Leaves from the diary of an Australian trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai & Palestine with 5th Light Horse Regiment (all from Nick Fletcher, the later jacket by Edgar Holloway, showing the charge of 4th Light Horse at Beersheba, is a facsimile)

A Soldier’s Diary by Will Judy Judy Pub. 1931. At the front with the 33rd Div., AEF.

Silurians by D D Jones Arthur Stockwell 1939. Little known very Welsh romance in which the hero wins a VC in Flanders.

Max Immelman Eagle of Lille Hamilton 1935. Biography

Hutchinson 1932. Further Memoirs.

1932 3rd imp. below

Blown in by the Draft by Frazier Hunt Doubleday 1918

Westminster City Pub. Co. 1934. The story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulance (from White Eagle Books)

Faith Press 1916

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

The Grand Fleet by Admiral Jellicoe Cassell 1919. Includes his descriptions of the Battle of Jutland

Four Infantrymen on the Western Front by Ernst Johannsen Methuen 1930

Torment by C E Jacomb Melrose 1920. From the War Office to the Western Front with 23rd Royal Fusiliers. Scarce & invaluable memoir.

Farewell to Youth by Storm Jameson Knopf 1928 Jacket by Ronald McRae. A returning soldier finds his wife has been unfaithful.

Flash Spotters by John Innes Allen & Unwin 1935. The work of the men who found the guns (Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

Mice in Oxygen by Gerald Huntbach Cecil Palmer 1930 One of the few plays set in the trenches. Its unfortunate reliance on Scottish dialect make it a hard slog!

The Royal Naval Division by Douglas Jerrold Hutchinson 1927 1st cheap ed.(fp 1923) An indispensable history according to Cyril Falls who gives it 2 stars (from David Ainsworth)

False Witness by Johannes Jorgensen Hodder 1916. Translation of the Danish ‘Klokke Roland’. An indictment of the German War aims.

G & D after 1919 & Dent 1919 (below). A German female spy traps a Spanish Captain into delivering oil to th Germans.

Methuen 1934 Edith Cavell’s affection for her dogs whilst in Belgium (from Stella & Rose’s Books)

Macmillan 1938. History of the Machine Gun Corps 1916-1922

Bobbs-Merrill 1928 American plans for the War & their implementation (from Andrew Harrison)

Bobbs-Merrill 1929. Espionage during the War (from Between-the-Covers)

Thomas Seltzer NY 1920. Short Stories (from Babylon Revisited)

Herbert Jenkins 1928. The brief career of the German Raider as told by her 2nd Torpedo officer. She sank some 30 ships from Aug. - Oct. 1914 before being sunk by the Australian Cruiser, Sydney

John Murray 1935. Tales of the Boer & Great Wars by a Commander of a Field Artillery Brigade.

Constable 1917. Front-line sketches submitted to ‘Punch’ while the author was serving with the 1st Batt., KSLI. He was killed nr. Ypres in 1916

Longmans 1930 Novel of life in an Air Station on the Cornish Coast during the War. Based on the authors service with the RNAS bombing subs & chasing Zeppelins.