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Cassell 1922. Novel. Three young men go to War & find religion on the way. Enormously popular novel in its time.

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)

Rich & Cowan 1933. His collected Naval short stories

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

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)

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

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.

Duckworth 1915

(from Peter Harrington)

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)

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

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’

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.

T. Fisher Unwin 1918. The sister of the poet describes her flight from the Ardennes to Paris during the German advance to the Marne including the bombardment of Rheims.

Hogarth 1930. Officers & their wives in occupied Germany & the effects of the War on them.

(from Instant, Rare & Collectable, NZ)

A selection of volumes by Sir Herbert Read MC, DSO. Captain in the Green Howards. 2 poetry volumes from Faber in jackets the rest in wrappers. Naked Warriors. pub. Art & Letters 1919, cover by David Bomberg. In Retreat, a narrative of the 1918 retreat of the British Army, Hogarth 1925, Faber 1930 & Ambush, Faber 1930 treats the same material in a more imaginative fashion (both Criterion Miscellany volumes from David Ainsworth).

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

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

Skeffington 1920. Their part in the War by the Commandant of the British War Dog school (from JRF)

Hamilton ‘Ace Series’ 1936 (from David Ainsworth)

Cassell 1928. WW1 themed novel of adventure set in the Persian Gulf & Turkey (from Babylon Revisited)

Doubleday 1918 (9th printing). A mother sends her son off to War.

Methuen 1928 & Century Co. 1928. trans. by Cecil Lewis. This play was described at the time as ‘the finest piece of dramatic literature the War has given us’. An indictment of War through the eyes of a returning French soldier.

Stokes 1919. There is some debate as to which version is the true first edition.

(from Nick Fletcher)

Skeffington 1918. Edited from Official Canadian War records.

Privately printed. Carlisle 1916 in wrappers. A well illustrated volume of verse on the Gallipoli campaign (this copy belonging to a fellow officer in the Border Regiment).

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

Melrose 1925. Driving the Generals around behind the lines.