The War in the Trenches Hardcover - 1976

London England: Book Club Associates, 1976. Hardback. The War in the Trenches. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. The trench war fought on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 has no precedent in history. In a single day of trench fighting the British lost more men than her battle casualities in all the years of the Crimean and Boer Wars combined - and far more than her worst losses for any day in World War II. The author's vivid, compassionate account and the unique photographs and paintings by war artists that accompany the text spare nothing of this horror. Yet his narrative and the eye-witness accounts of veterans of Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele and Cambrai show how shee hopleness produced a magnificant strength and comradeship. Miraculously, it even brought out a sense of humour, typidied in Bairnsfather's cartoons of the hunched figure of Old Bill, the phlegmatic troglodyte who helped to bring a smile to all who faced the appalling, tragic squalor of the war in the trenches. Illustrated. 200 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 1st Book Club Associates. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto. Hardback.