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Hurst & Blackett 1932 & 1936 (f.p.1935) & Sidgwick & Jackson 1923

Hodder 1919 Part of a series of novels. The Canadian edition alongside, McClelland & Stewart 1919 subtly changes the grammar of the title.

A. L. Burt (after Doran) 1917 & Hodder 1919 (Cheap ed.) Novel. The author was a Major & Chaplain with 43rd Cameron Highlanders (from Fons).

Sampson Low 1916 (2nd imp.) & Sampson Low 1916. American War reporter attached to Sir John French’s Headquarters

Doran 1915. Novel. US war correspondent in the Russian lines meets woman revolutionary & becomes fervent pacifist (from Fons).

Epworth Press 1919. Life in the trenches & its religious parallels!

Duckworth 1931 An Austrian incarcerated for the duration tells the rare story of British internment.

Angus & Robertson 1933. A small section deals with his time in Gallipoli (from Andrew Harrison)

Thornton-Butterworth 1st UK 1923 - 1931 (top) & Scribners 1st US 1923 - 1931 (below) Churchill’s masterful history of the War

(from The Churchill Book Specialist - $12,000 / set)

John Murray 1916 A prewar German plot to extend their Empire from France to the Persian Gulf (from Geoffrey Miller)

John Long 1937 Little known novel tracing the lives of a group of young men through the War. About 1/3rd of the book is set at the Front.

John Murray 1920. With the Gold Coast Regiment in East Africa against von Lettow-Vorbeck. A classic covering a period not recorded in the Official History

Nelson 1916 (fp 1903) The earliest copy I’ve seen in a jacket. Obviously not a WW1 book but its plot of the discovery of German plans to invade England, which is said to have led to the building of the Naval base at Scapa Flow, prefigures the War so closely it can be seen as the precursor of all WW1 literature (from Adrian Harrington Rare Books)

Quality Press 1938. The author served with the 66th East Lancs Div., Army Service Corps.

Centenary Press 1932. ‘Tubby’ Clayton’s letters to his mother, 1915 - 1918.

Robertson & Mullens 1942. Jacket by Gerald Muir.
Highest scoring Air Ace of the Australian Flying Corps (from Nick Fletcher)

Grosset & Dunlap 1918 (revised ed) Impressions of the War written near the front (from Fons)

Williams & Norgate 1928 revised ed. (fp 1923) How Germany obtained supplies prior to her collapse

(from David Ainsworth)

Duckworth 1931. Cheap edition.

Hodder 1938. Connor (Charles Gordon) was senior chaplain to the 3rd Canadian Division.

Heinemann 1935 (from David Ainsworth)

Samuel French NY 1935. Play based on Humphrey Cobb’s Novel. (from Babylon Revisited)

Sidgwick 1922. 2nd impression. Keble Chatterton’s story of the heavily armoured ships disguised as Merchant vessels.

Angus & Robertson 1941. Biography of the Air Observer/Gunner Ernest Mustard who flew with the Air Ace Ross Smith (from Nick Fletcher)

Thornton Butterworth 1937 Jacket by Bip Pares. The story of the soldier’s from 2 Canadian families & their experiences at the Front

(from James Calhoun).

Cornish Brothers 1928

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Rich & Cowan 1938. Autobiography of a Stoker by ‘Clinker Knocker’

(from David & Helen Pritchard).

Privately Printed 1957. Diary of Arthur Henry Cook, DCM, MM. 1st Somerset Light Infantry. (probably no jacket issued)

Penn 1922. First of 4 novels telling the story of Jeanne whose parents are killed by the advancing Germans & is rescued from starvation by an American doctor.

Doran 1917. War correspondent with the German forces.

Scribner 1918. General history of the U-Boat campaign (from Between-the-Covers).

Appleton N.Y. 1918. A doctor tells us who looks after the wounded in War.

Doran 1918. Novel. A sympathetic portrayal of a German spy in England.

(from Babylon Revisited)

Century Co. 1919 US army engineers in the War (from Babylon Revisited).

28th Battalion Trustees Public Library, Perth 1922 by Col. H. B. Collett. Vol.1 Egypt & Gallipoli.

Cassell 1930 DCLI in 1900, Boer War, Ulster & War Office.

Privately printed 1920. An above average Battalion history of the 2nd Tyneside Pioneers.

Doran 1918. An American lady spies for the Germans, falls in love, is spurned, caught & commits suicide.

Edward J.Clode NY 1927. Jacket by Herbert Fouts. A novel of the building of a great battleship, the Huascar.(from Babylon Revisited)

Gollancz 1932 & below Brentano’s 1931. Austrian playwright who based this on his experience on the Italian Front. He died bizarrely by falling into the orchestra pit during rehearsals for this play.

Methuen 1917. One of the first accounts of life in the prison for interned British civilians.

Hodder 1947 (f.p.1940). Spy story featuring the double lives of a double agent (pseudonyms of Adelaide Manning & Cyril Coles) (from Fons).

Doran 1919 The author, who was killed in 1918, served with the Transport & the US Air service.

Literary Guild of America 1941

(from Fons)

Little, Brown 1937. Service with 96th USAS in 1918 until his capture in September (from Grant Morrow).

Musson (Toronto) 1944. A Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone.

Simpkin, Marshall 1918. Ballads (from Michael Tregoning)

Harcourt Brace 1930, France’s Wartime PM’s reflects on it.