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Houghton, Mifflin 1917. Jacket by the author. Novelised view of his service at Ypres as a machine gun captain

Cosmopolitan 1927. Jacket by C. Leroy Baldridge. A talking horse tells his fellow stablemates about his time with the Artillery at the Front!

Duffield 1930. A Harvard Student on the Marne with the French Foreign Legion (Previous ed. alongside) (from Paul).

Harper 1919. Fantasy novel of dead American soldier who can make contact with his wife (from Brian Busby)

Benn 1930. Staff Cpt. with the 110th Inf. Bgd. (4th Batt. Leicesters). Vitriolic about the literature of disillusionment (‘ a flood of pornography’)

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Arrowsmith 1929 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Hale 1940. Koningsberg blockade runner & in East Africa

(from Kerry Trubee).

Melrose 1918. The popular singer’s account of his time entertaining the troops in France for which he was knighted. Written as a memorial to his son, killed at Poziers in 1916

Newnes 1936. First pub. as ‘A Naval Lieutenent’ by Etienne in 1919. Life in a light cruiser throughout the War.

Thornton Butterworth 1934. The first part of the Fleet Admirals memoirs.

Bobbs-Merrill 1918. Ultra patriotic novel about a young war bride whose soldier husband is killed without knowing she is carrying his child. Jacket by Charles Dana Gibson

Hale, Cushman & Flint 1935. With the Cossacks in the Caucasian Native Cavalry Div. On the Eastern Front 1916-1917 ( from White Eagle Books)

Hutchinson 1927. A Major in the Turkish army gives his side of the story (from David & Helen Pritchard)

John Lane Bodley Head 1919 UK & US 1sts. Humorous stories imagining the German Rulers as US immigrants (UK ed. from Roger Joye)

Aviation Library 1939 (fp Hamilton 1933 same jacket). Biography of the famous flier

4 books from the Vergette-Whitehorn Collection. Hugh Kingsmill’s ‘Behind Both Lines’ Morley 1930. With the Drake Batt., capture & subsequent imprisonment. Fritz Kreisler’s short spell in the trenches from Houghton Mifflin 1916, some spooky goings-on amidst the Seaforth Highlanders. Eneas Mackay, Stirling 1933 & Lambert’s time in the 2nd. Batt. HAC from 1917 - 1918. John Long 1930

Lawrence 2 forays into the War. Secker 1924 and Selzer 1923. See George Simmers research blog for a perceptive discussion of both books.

Cape & Harrison Smith NY 1931 trans. from the German. A novel of a soldier’s mental disintegration under the pressures of War (author’s name, Koppen, is misspelt on the jacket) (from Dave Golemon)

Appleton NY 1918. The editor of ‘Le Matin’ gives his picture of France at War.

Rich & Cowan 1933. At Jutland, on the North Sea Patrol, meeting Lloyd George etc. (from Andrew Harrison)

Hutchinson 1921 2-vols. The Diary of a Military Attache 1914 - 1917 (from Jeff Leser)

Bobbs-Merrill 1919 A novel of Pennsylvanian villagers in 1917 one of whom goes to France as a War correspondent & dies on the battlefield (from Between-the-covers)

Melrose 1917 2nd imp. Jacket by J. Abbey. Road building for the army.

Scribners 1942. Jacket by Edward Shenton. The story of the legendary War horse who served through the Great & Russian Civil Wars (from Fons)

Putnam 1937 German sabotage in the USA during the War (from Geoffrey Miller)

Hutchinson 1928 Jacket by B. Wallace. Novel. An airman struggles to come to terms with the postwar world with tragic consequences.

Melrose 1916 Reflections of a French Army Chaplain.

C. W. Daniel 1939. A front-line narrative by a member of the London Rifle Brigade rendered wholly in dialogue.

Hutchinson 1931 Jacket by Youngman Carter.

Daily Telegraph 1914 (by John McFarland Kennedy)

Rich & Cowan 1935. The foreign affairs of the US government from its Secretary of State 1915-1920.

Century Co. NY 1919. Novel. The War forces a young lady to earn her living by posing nude for a Parisian sculptor (from Babylon Revisited)