Black cloth binding with gilt title and banding on the spine.

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A great collectors book

1st edn., 767pp, [i] blank, decorative endpapers, frontis and 16 full page line ills. by various artists, grained black cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind at spine, decorated in blind upper board, upper edge coloured, a collection of accounts of all aspects of WW1 and from all fronts, from the army, navy and flying corps, including writers such as Philip Gibbs, Compton Mackenzie, Bruce Bairnsfather, E. Keble Chatterton and R. H. Mottram but also many lesser known writers relating stories which are just as significant, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

Review: There are so many books on the Great War that it would take a couple of lifetimes to read them all but none are better than this. The book is simple, the narrative of a bygone age but that is of course the point. These tales are utterly true and were not told with the benefit of any hindsight,they were related by men who lived through the conflict. Some are reluctant,others brash, some of the stories are well written,others are no more than adequate from a purely literary perspective but ALL are worthy from the man who tied an injured comrade to a shovel and dragged him to safety across no mans land and declared himself shocked to get a VC for his trouble saying “anybody would have done the same”. To the man who decided to escape from German custody in 1915 and simply walked out of his prison camp,put on a pair of German spectacles he had stolen, purchased some German clothes and got on a train bound for the Dutch border. Less than a day after he walked out of his jail he was at the border crossing,he was caught….but two years later he did it again and successfully. “I knew it wouldn’t occur to any average German that the man walking along the road in broad daylight without a care could be an escaped prisoner…it’s the skulking about in the shadows that draws attention”. Quite so…..Brilliant read.