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5 Flying novels from George Rochester. All Hamilton 1935, 6 or 7. Jackets by Stanley Orton Bradshaw (Flying Spy by Howard Leigh). Fiction but using his experiences with 97th squadron during the war. ( from Renzo).

Faber 1933 The definitive other ranks memoir
(from Nick Fletcher)(subsequent impressions reverse the text colour on the jacket)

Cassell 1930. Novel based on Raymond’s service at Gallipoli & Middle East. (from Babylon Revisited Books)

Rich & Cowan 1933. His collected Naval short stories

Hodder 1918. Jacket & Illustrations by Douglas Swale.. More stories of the Navy in the War.

Doran 1919. Novel. Small-town girl sets up a soup kitchen in Belgium & falls in love

Barker 1937. Jacket by J.E.Maunton. Much scarcer follow-up. Staff officer of 23rd Bde. at the 2nd Battle of the Aisne .Maj.Gen. Von Unruh gives the German view.

Sears 1928. Service at Belleau Wood & the Aisne, where he was wounded & gassed, with 6th US Marines

(from William Erti).

Cape 1937. Lawrence was very complimentary about his driver.

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

J W Northend, Sheffield 1930.(f.p. privately 1925)

2nd Lt. With the Hallamshires (Yorks & Lancs Reg.) & 461st Field Company, R. E. at the Battle of Cambrai. (alternative jacket from same edition alongside)

Harrison Smith 1936. US ed. of his pre-war service in India & Burma (from Madoc Books)

Below Faber 1936 (from Peter Harrison)

Stokes 1919. Memoir of the CO of the 94th US Aero Sq. & leading US air ace with 26 victories (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Doubleday 1932 (from Babylon Revisited)

Knopf 1939. Part of Romains vast 27 novel sequence ‘Men of Good Will’
(from Sarah Phillips)

Doran 1918 Humorous novel about a Sgt. on leave & a General’s daughter.

John Murray 1940 about a third of the book concerns the SW African Campaign (from Kerry Trubee).

AH & AW Reed 1938. A history of the Imperial Camel Corps 1916-1918 with particular ref. to the New Zealanders (from Nick Fletcher)

Constable 1921. The first man to rise from the ranks to the top. CGS & CIGS during the war. Well worth reading for his description of his time as a ranker.

Putnam 1932.(by John Rodker) The left-hand version is by Paul Nash, the other for a proposed edition from Desmond Harmsworth that never materialised - designer unknown. These images come from that splendid Peter Scott catalogue, no.245 of 1988, for Bertram Rota. Along with Gurner’s ‘Pass Guard’ the 2 books from that Catalogue I’d now give my eye teeth for!

Duckworth 1915

(from Peter Harrington)

Houghton Mifflin 1919. 100 Sq. Flying Handley-Page 0/400s. Called ‘Bedouins’ because the squadron moved so often. (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Sears 1931.Novel. Canadian officer gets drunk, is court-martialled & later regains his rank

The Dark Invader by Capt. Von Rintelen Macmillan 1933. Jacket by Artzybasheff. The adventures of a German Naval Intelligence officer (from Between the Covers books)

T E Lawrence by Vyvyan Richards Cape 1936. A personal portrait of Lawrence by one of his Oxford friends.

Harper 1930 1st & later imp. Served in the 1st Inf. Div., 7th Reg. (from Fons & JRF)

4 Naval vols. By ‘Bartimeus’ (Lewis Ritchie)

Cassell 1918 (fp 1917) Naval tales.

Dodd, Mead 1931 The workers turn to Socialism on returning from the Front.

Geoffrey Bles 1927 Novel. A french girl struggles with a German Spy.

Constable 1920 Vol. 1 of 2. Lt. Col. Repington’s War memoirs ( from Peter Lambert)

Hutchinson 1932. Novel. 2 families, English & Austrian, torn apart by the War (from Fons)

Milne & Hutchison 1929 An excellent memoir of the work of an RAMC Field Ambulance with the 51st Highland Division.

Harper Bros. 1918. With No. 4 Sq. Over the Somme having started the War in the 10th Canadian Batt.

Peter Davies 1941 (cheap ed. f.p.1935) Further spying exploits (from Geoffrey Miller)

Melrose 1914 (fp 1907) Prewar view of the potential German threat (from MW Books)

Faber 1935. This now scarce novel is based on the author’s time in Ingolstadt prison in Bavaria.

Melrose 1924. 3rd ed.(f.p.1923). The first ‘Blitz’

Cassell 1918 (f.p. Blackwood 1914)

Clarendon 1922. The first volume of the Official History Series which ran to 6 text vols, 2 Map vols & 1 appendices from 1922 - 1937. Subsequent vols were by H. A. Jones

Duckworth 1916 2nd imp. (Central vignette is red on the 1st ed) from Stella & Rose’s Books

Harrap 1931 Novel of an affair between a Captain & a Countess during the War (from Babylon Revisited)

Hurst & Blackett 1940 (fp in Germany 1921) The Vice Admirals view of the scuttling of the German High Fleet at Scapa Flow in June 1919

(from Nick Fletcher)

Angus & Robertson 1924. In the desert with the Imperial Camel Corps

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Houghton Mifflin 1917. Reflections on the War & the role of mothers at home, with a call for better leadership.

Heinemann 1920. The story of the Special London Constabulary established during the War (from David Ainsworth)

Bobbs Merrill 1918. An American journalist at the front.