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Great War Dust Jackets

Briggs 1919. 1st Canadian ed. of one of the war’s best known poems. Precedes other editions

Hamilton 1930. Jacket by Leonard Bridgman. Re-issue of below Aeroplane & General Publishing 1918 (from Bob Liska)

UK & US Eds. of this Nursing memoir. Harrap 1936 & Harcourt Brace 1936

Brentanos 1924. Jacket by Hydeman (after Nevinson) & Grant Richards 1924. Jacket by Nevinson. Novel tracing the psychology of a young artillery officer in the dirt & drudgery of war. A prize winning novel. (pseud. Of George Gordon Macfarlane. 2nd Lt. RFA

Appleton 1918. Middleton was in the RNAS during the War. This is a collection of combat incidents (from Renzo)

Fisher, Unwin 1916. Pseudonym of Arthur Hobart Mills, author of much adventure fiction, now long forgotten. Sketches of life in a base hospital. Jacket by Helen McKie

Doubleday 1923. Novelised view of the authors experience at the front

Heinemann 1934 with foreword by Churchill. Jacket mimics the cloth beneath (from Tom Donovan)

Hutchinson 1923. 2nd ed. (f.p. 1921) A modern day morality tale some of which is set at the front

Cape 1935. 22 years in the Royal Marine Artillery including Gallipoli and Jutland.
(from Nick Fletcher)

Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1930.
US account of the Gun that shelled Paris
(from Nick Fletcher)

Doubleday 1923 (from Fons)

Angus & Robertson 1939 5th ed. (f.p.1932)

A rather lurid jacket for this memoir of the much decorated Australian - VC, MC & Bar, DCM - with 18th Batt., AIF

(from Nick Fletcher)

Heinemann 1918. Further adventures of ‘Midshipman’ as related to his mother, including the Battle of Jutland.

Hodder 1939. Jacket by Bip Pares. Novel set in the shipyards in & around the war. Forward by Philip Gibbs.

Jarrolds 1935. Jacket by Douglas Moir

Jarrolds 1936. Jacket by Douglas Moir. The story of the spy Brut Verhagen

3 books by the Belgian Spy Marthe Cnockaert McKenna known as ‘Laura’ to the British who worked as a nurse for the Germans whilst spying for the allies (click here for a full biography). The experience gave her enough material for more than a dozen books like these.

David Lister 1939. Entertaining the Troops.

Macmillan 1925. How the battle of Jutland and the Gallipoli landings were influenced by the wind and sea conditions!

Hodder 1920. Operations of the Murmansk Force by its GOC & actions against the Bolsheviks

(from Tom Donovan)

Eveleigh Nash 1921 The Admirals embittered response to supposed inaccuracies in the Official History.

Bobbs-Merrill 1918 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Invasion 14 by Maxence van der Meersch. Constable 1937. Sadly neglected novel which tells of the effects of the War on the French families behind the German lines.

Gundy 1924 1st Canadian ed. Novel of divided loyalties between an American father & a Prussian mother.

John Walker 1924 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Beacon Library 1938 (from Fons)

Murray 1921. From the Indian frontier, via South Africa to France. Memoir edited by his wife Charlotte (from Tom Donovan)

Hutchinson 1920 A frank account of the Greek King’s part in the War (from Geoffrey Miller)

Angus & Robertson 1935. Realistic War novel whose hero, John Fairbairn, becomes increasingly disillusioned. Based on the author’s experiences.

Hale 1937. The story of the clandestine newspaper ‘La Libre Belgique (from Tom Donovan)

Seeley, Service 1916 War Correspondents view of the devastation of the War zones.

Backus 1935. With the 46th Div. At Hill 60, Loos & on to the Armistice (from Tom Donovan)

Hodder 1930’s ? (possibly f.p. 1924 - not in BL) A story of the Great War written for the children of the future.

(from David Ainsworth)

Herbert Jenkins 1918 (by Aimee McHardy). A true story told in a series of letters

(from Bob Liska)