1914

Large 8vo. xiv, 446 pp, list of maps and illustrations, author's foreword and acknowledgments, I. All in the Day's Work; II. Strangers in a Strange Land; III. The Long Slog; IV. The Road to Flanders; V. Epitaph; bibliography, author's note, index. First Edition, 1988. Red half-cloth with black paper-covered board, gilt lettering to spine, and map on endpapers. " In this book, the author lets the British soldiers of 1914 tell their own moving, and often tragic, stories. His research has uncovered a wealth of eyewitness accounts and new or little-known material -- letters, diaries, official papers and reports -- which she has woven together into an engrossing and moving picture of what it was like tobe a soldier in the British Army in 1914." from the jacket flap.