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Cassell 1917
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Heaven High Hell Deep by Norman Archibald Heinemann 1935. A fine Paul Nash design for this flying memoir

Roon by Herbert Asquith Hutchinson 1929 & 1930. Cheap edition. Novel by the poet & PMs son. A woman torn between romance & duty

Under Fire by Henri Barbusse Dent 1917. Wonderful & exceptionally rare jacket.        

Dent 1929 combined edition with cover by Romney Towndrow

Light by Henri Barbusse Dent 1919. The Follow-up

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Schlump by (Eric Schultz) Secker 1929 . A simple man at war with a vivid description of the German retreat.

Jacket unsigned

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2 of Anthony Armstrong’s Humorous series. Jackets by Rene Bull. Methuen 1926 & 1928

Holding the Line by Harold Baldwin McClurg 1918. 1st Div. Canadian Exp. Force. (from JRF)

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The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold Heinemann 1920. Novel This must have just leapt out at you in the shop!

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The Soul of a Skunk by George Baker Eric Partridge 1930. A conscientious objector on his imprisonment

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Macauley 1930. Served as a nurse & kitchen worker during the war & as a nightclub hostess & chorus girl after (maybe the work of John J. Niles )
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The Legion of the Condemned by Eustace Ball Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Novelisation of the screenplay by John Monk Saunders for the film starring Gary Cooper & Fay Wray.

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Dutton 1919. Jacket by Duncan Carse (from John Lutschak Books)
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Q Boat Adventures by Harold Auten Herbert Jenkins. Popular ed. (1920). Jacket by J. H. Hartley. One of the original commanders tells his story of these armoured ships.

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Dutton 1918 rpt. (from David & Helen Pritchard)

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Death in the Air by Wesley D. Archer Heinemann 1936 rpt. & 1933 original (from Peter Harrington). Probably genuine RFC memoir but the spectacular aerial photos were later shown to have been made using model aircraft!

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Julian Messner 1935. With the AEF. Described as the antithesis of the novels of disillusion. (from Babylon Revisited)

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Hurst & Blackett 1916. A Major’s letters to his mother from the front. His letters are so anodyne that she must have been astounded when he was killed.

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With a Motorbike in the Bush by F J Ashley Blackie 1938. With a motorbike unit in East Africa written for young boys (from Kerry Trubee).

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The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey Penn Publishing / G & D 1919. A millionaire slacker & the 2 women in his life. A popular melodrama.

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Bobbs Merill 1932. Anon. Service in France with US Intelligence service.

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An Airman Marches by H H Balfour Hutchinson 1933. With 43rd Sqd. over the front. The authors’ wide experience makes this a valuable source of information (from David & Helen Pritchard).

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Heinemann 1929 - 1932. 4 vols. of this Official History by Aspinall-Oglander

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Secker 1930. Standard series format for the 2nd ed.

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McKay 1941. Book of the film.

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Some of My Experiences in the Great War by Ashmead-Bartlett Newnes 1918. War Reporter

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Hutchinson 1930. Anonymous diary of the Russian revolution.

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Simpson & Co 1919. Anon. The experiences of a voluntary unit on No. 16 Ambulance train (from the Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

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From Chauffeur to Brigadier by C B Baker-Carr Benn 1930. The Brigadier’s memoirs (from Dave Golemon)

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Air Defence by E B Ashmore Longmans 1929 The Commander of the London Air Defences gives an account of the raids on England during the War (from Dave Golemon)

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Hodder 1921 Issued by Supreme command of the Italian Army. June 15 - 23, 1918

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Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather Grant Richards 1916. His trench memoirs are as good as his cartoons.

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Carry on Sergeant by Bruce Bairnsfather Bobbs-Merrill 1927

(from Mark Warby’s Bairnsfather site)

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Portrait of an Airman by Philip Arnall (Oliver Stewart) Bodley Head 1931 His time with 54 Squadron RFC. Memoirs masquerading as a novel.

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Animal War Heroes by Peter Shaw Baker A & C Black 1933. Touching true stories of Horses, Mules, Dogs, Cats, Pigeons & even Geese.

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Werner Laurie 1930. A Woman’s story of the War.
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The Querrils by Stacy Aumonier Methuen 1919. The troubles of a middle-class family culminating in the War. One of the characters is shot at dawn (from George Simmers)

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Bairnsfather; Fragments from his life by Vivian Carter Hodder 1916 with several previously unpublished sketches

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Gone West by a Soldier Doctor Knopf 1919 Letters from the front (from Babylon Revisited)

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Turkey in Travail by Harold Armstrong Bodley Head 1925. Written by a former POW (from Peter Lambert)

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“Poilu” A Dog of Roubaix by Eleanor Atkinson. Harper 1918 later printing. The War from a dogs viewpoint. (from Babylon Revisited)