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

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

Simpkin, Marshall 1917. Middleton was in the RNAS during the War. This is a collection of combat incidents.

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

Heinemann 1934 & 1936 (cheap edition) with foreword by Churchill who served with the author in the Royal Scots Greys. Jacket (1934) mimics the cloth beneath.

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.

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.

Jarrolds 1935. Jacket by Douglas Moir

Jarrolds 1936. The story of the spy Brut Verhagen

4 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 many of which were supposedly ghost written by her husband.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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

(from Bob Liska)

John Walker 1924 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Doubleday 1926. Novel of a staff corporal in the National Guard Div. & his love for a French War widow (from Babylon Revisited)

Open Court Publishing Company 1917. An American art student in Germany during the War (from Babylon Revisited).

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

McBride 1933 2nd imp. (from Babylon Revisited).

David Lister 1939. Entertaining the Troops.

Jarrolds 1933 (fp 1932)

Bobbs-Merrill 1918 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Heinemann 1915 Jacket by Helen McKie. (from the Soldier’s Tales of the Great War series.

G & D 1928. War-time romance.

Hodder 1919. A thorough description of the work of the hospitals in Royaumont, Serbia,, Russia & Roumania.

Humphrey Milford O.U.P. 1919. (Jacket by John de Walton).Tales of the Canadian Battalion Scouts in the War.

below Oxford 1925

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

Jarrolds 1934. 7th issue.

Ivor, Nicholson & Watson 1936. Memoirs of an Irish Officer in the British Army.

Hodder 1916. A French Captain’s rather flattering view of our troops.

Bodley Head 1920. The last few months of the campaign in Palestine. Delightfully illustrated.

below A & C Black 1920 (from Kurt Gippert Bookseller)

Doubleday 1917 (5th imp.) & Grosset & Dunlap after 1917. Flying with the Lafayette Escadrille for France over Verdun. (from Mr. Koreander & Little Stour Books)

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

Secker 1922 A novel of the demands of leadership at sea.

Dent 1920. Life aboard a Motor Launch throughout the War. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell.

Elkin Mathews 1920. Poems from a P.O.W. camp.

Erskine Macdonald 1918 Paperback (from Cheshire Book Centre).

John Smith 1916. Anecdotes of the 9th Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders)

Thornton Butterworth 1924 & Little Brown 1924. A novel of English political life in the immediate post-war years (from Babylon Revisited)

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

Humorous verse by R.G.Miller. 1917 (from Peter Lambert).