Briggs 1919. 1st Canadian ed. of one of the war’s best known poems. Precedes other editions
Hamilton 1930. Jacket by Leonard Bridgman
Heinemann 1930. One of the authors many novels of the war at sea
Pevensey 1931. Superb jacket by Calman. US private at the front.
UK & US Eds. of this Nursing memoir. Harrap 1936 & Harcourt Brace 1936
Brentanos 1924. Jacket by Hydeman. Novel tracing the psychology of a young artillery officer in the dirt & drudgery of war. A prize winning novel. As I recall the UK ed. uses a Nevinson picture as a jacket.
Hale 1937. The story of the clandestine newspaper ‘La Libre Belgique (from Tom Donovan)
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
Reed Dunedin 1939 . An NZ sapper in 1917 (from JRF)
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)
Heinemann 1916 by ‘Midshipman’
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.
Doran 1918. Jacket by Edmund Dulac
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!
