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Great War Dust Jackets

Heinemann 1935. A fine Paul Nash design for this flying memoir

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

Dent 1929 combined edition with cover by Romney Towndrow

Secker 1929 (by Emil Schultz). A simple man at war with a vivid description of the German retreat.
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Eveleigh Nash 1930. Collected volume of the trench newspapers.

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

McClurg 1918. 1st Div. Canadian Exp. Force. (from JRF)

Heinemann 1920. Novel This must have just leapt out at you in the shop!

Eric Partridge 1930. A conscientious objector on his imprisonment (from Tom Donovan)

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 )

Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Novelisation of the screenplay by John Monk Saunders for the film starring Gary Cooper & Fay Wray.

Dutton 1919. Jacket by Duncan Carse (from John Lutschak Books)

Herbert Jenkins. Popular ed. (1920). Jacket by J. H. Hartley. One of the original commanders tells his story of these armoured ships.

Dutton 1918 rpt. (from David & Helen Pritchard)

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

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

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.

Blackie 1938. With a motorbike unit in East Africa written for young boys (from Kerry Trubee).

Penn Publishing / G & D 1919. A millionaire slacker & the 2 women in his life. A popular melodrama.

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

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

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

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

McKay 1941. Book of the film.

Hodder 1921 Issued by Supreme command of the Italian Army. June 15 - 23, 1918 (from Tom Donovan)

Methuen 1919. The troubles of a middle-class family culminating in the War. One of the characters is shot at dawn (from George Simmers)

Hutchinson 1930. Anonymous diary of the Russian revolution.

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

Benn 1930. The Brigadier’s memoirs (from Dave Golemon)

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