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Heaven High Hell Deep by Norman Archibald Heinemann 1935. A fine Paul Nash design for this flying memoir + US ed. Boni 1935 in silver foil jacket (from JRF)

Roon by Herbert Asquith Hutchinson 1929. 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 (Hans Herbert Grimm) Jacket by Emil Preetorius. Secker 1929 . A simple man at war, with a vivid description of the German retreat.

Jacket unsigned

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3 of Anthony Armstrong’s Humorous series. Jackets by Rene Bull & G L Stampa. Methuen 1926,1928 & 1932 (from JRF)

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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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Dutton 1918 rpt.

Death in the Air by Wesley D. Archer Heinemann 1936 rpt. & 1933 original. 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 the South African Motor Cycle Corps in German East Africa.

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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.

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

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

From Chauffeur to Brigadier by C B Baker-Carr Benn 1930. The Brigadier’s memoirs including founding the MGC & Commanding the Tank Brigade. An engaging read.

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

Turkey in Travail by Harold Armstrong Bodley Head 1925. On the staff of the army of Occupation.

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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)

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Bronco by Richard Ball Junior Country Life Library 1939 (from Fons) & Country Life 1930 alongside. The fictionalised life of a cavalry horse in the War who goes on to win at Olympia.

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With the 10th Essex in France by Lt. Col. T M Banks Gay & Hancock 1921 (from Tom Donovan)

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Mike of Company D by Don Aspden Scribner 1939 illustrated by Paul Brown. Mikes’ time in the Front Line (from Fons)

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Hodder 1917 The cover picture is taken from the image by Matania as used in the ‘Sketch’ showing Cornwell standing by his guns at Jutland

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Both Werner Laurie 1930. A Woman’s story of the War & after.(from MW Books)
below Werner Laurie 1938 ninety-second thousand.
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Simpkin, Marshall 1916. 6th imp. The author was the War Correspondent of the Daily News (from David Ainsworth)

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Murray 1927. At 1st & 3rd Ypres, Festubert, Loos, Somme & in Italy (from Tom Donovan)

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Dutton 1928 (pub. in UK as ‘Thus & Thus’)Short stories some set during the War & in the Balkans & Russia (from Babylon Revisited)

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Hutchinson 1930. Anonymous diary of the Russian revolution.

Hutchinson 1932. Condensed from the Admiral’s previous account & with additions to correct inaccuracies in the Official History

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Methuen 1915. from MW Books

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Hutchinson 1925. A pro-Jellicoe account following adverse press criticism of his handling of the campaign.

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McClelland, Stewart 1916 (from John Etheridge).

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Cassell 1916 (by E. A.) The diary of a Belgian nun & her fight against the Germans.

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McBride 1918 (pub in UK by Constable). Lightly fictionalised account by a sergeant in the RAMC

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

Butterworth 1916 5th printing. The anonymous letters of an American girl Lieutenant in a French Army Hospital at the Front.

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Brewer, Warren & Putnam 1932. Photographic evidence of the horrors of warfare. Sadly such books always fail to prevent subsequent ones.

(from Nick Fletcher)

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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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Covici Friede 1932. Jacket by Danforth (from Babylon Revisited)

Arthur Pearson 1938 Before & After pictures of the Western Front.

 

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Little, Brown 1920. A WW1 soldier hears strange messages from a dead comrade & treks to the snowy woods of Michigan in search of an answer (from Fons).

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Allen & Unwin 1917. A summary of the debates on the subject with an index of the various acts.

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Cassell 1917
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Sidgwick 1917. 2nd enlarged edition with 14 additional poems (1st is 1915 in wrappers)

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RTS 1917. A Chaplain’s experiences in the Great War. The jacket illustration shows Indian Troops on a Hospital Train.

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Chiswick 1919 in wrappers.

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Doubleday 1920 (fp 1919) What President Wilson did at the Paris Peace Conference in setting up the League of Nations.

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Chatto 1919. A chaplain’s letters home from the front (from John Etheridge)

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Cassell 1936. The Official biography by Admiral Bacon.

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Hutchinson 1921. A translation of the German & Austrian laws affecting British property during the War.

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Hurst & Blackett 1916 by the Commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade Train. Includes his amusing encounter with General Smith-Dorrien (from the Vergette / Whitehorn collection)

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Barker 1932. The story of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, including the Gallipoli Campaign.

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Chapman & Hall 1937. With the MGC in France 1917-1918. Won the DSO in the Boer War in 1900.

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Faber 1930 Useful early biography covering his entire career.

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Constable 1917 (possibly by Lucy Rudston-Brown). Difficult to tell if these are fictitious or not.

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Hermann Montaus, Berlin 1915 by Prof. Backhaus. Text in English. Showing how well they were being treated!

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Doran 1919. The Dover patrol patrolled the English Channel to prevent German ships entering the Atlantic (from Little Stour Books).

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Rich & Cowan 1934. Escaping Tales from various war-time POW’s.

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Pearson 1914 One of the earliest such reports from a journalist.

 

Richard Smith 1931. Jacket by H. Nash. An Italian-American returns to fight on the Italian Front. Lightly fictionalised account of the author’s experiences.

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Faber 1940 4th imp. (fp 1930). History of the British Secret Service during the War.

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Witherby 1931 by (Colin Borradaile). 2nd Lt. to Battery Commander with the 115th Heavies, 2nd Corps. An outstanding, if quirkily written, memoir of the Somme & Passchendaele .

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Hutchinson 1934. Enlarged edition to take in the death of the king. Anonymous.

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Melrose 1917

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Government Printing Office, Washington 1920. A record of all the German Divisions that fought in the War (from Warwick Books).

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Doran 1916 A report from the French Government on the forced labour of women in the occupied territories.

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Macmillan NY1929 Written shortly after the Marshal’s death by his close friend General Aston.

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Birdsall & Son (Northampton) 1916

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Hodder 1929. First Sea Lord & Commander of the Dover Patrol.

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Gale & Polden 1927 Jacketless but rare account including the siege of Kut.

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Edward Arnold 1915. From the Marne to Neuve Chapelle.

(from Grant Morrow).

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Macmillan 1920 in 3-volumes. The most comprehensive biography.

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Hutchinson 1933

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Stokes 1918. Novel. The power of German Women in Wartime.

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Bodley Head 1921 (On Active Service Series). Intelligence Officer with the 173rd Bde.

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Heinemann 1924

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Hodder 1916 Jacket by Blampied

(from Andrew Hall) Click here to see his website on the artist.

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Hughes & Harber 1921

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Holding the Line by Harold Baldwin McClurg 1918. 1st Div. Canadian Exp. Force.

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Simpkin, Marshall 1926. A well researched & substantial account.

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Macmillan 1918. An American nurse in a Belgian Field Hospital with some fine photographs.

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Sherratt & Hughes 1923

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Hutchinson 1938. Biography of his father but much on his time at the front.

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The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold Heinemann 1920. The jacket appears to be a generic WH Smith one used on remaindered books.

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Heinemann 1918. A critical account of her time as a VAD at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. It was well received by the public but led to her dismissal.

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Harcourt, Brace NY 1929

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Gyldendal 1922 A record of over 600 artists performing throughout the world.

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Erskine Macdonald 1919. Poems by a Major in the BEF.

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Hutchinson 1915 A War Correspondents account (from Gallipoli 1915)

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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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Dent 1929 Essays on the conduct of the War.

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Howlett & Sons 1922 with over 10,000 entries.

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Blackwood 1916. Humorous tales from a hospital ward (sadly foxed).

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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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Medici Soc. 1931