The War the Infantry knew. 1914-1919
( Siegfried SASSOON ) DUNN, Captain J. C.
A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium.[With the Second Battalion, His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on Personal Records. [Second (First Trade) Edition].
NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Jane's, [1987]
Stock code: 46643
Price: £112.00
8vo., Second (First Trade) Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
This important work, to which Sassoon was a primary contributor, was first published privately in 1938 (see Keynes B16). Sassoon's main contribution, 'A Subaltern's Service in Camp and Action (12 March to 1 April 1917)', stands as Chapter XII where it is here retitled 'A Chapter in a Subaltern's Life (March 12th to April 16th 1917)'. The account was written early in 1926 and except for his diaries of 1918, was the first prose Sassoon wrote about the war. It was afterwards expanded in 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (1930) as pp. 190-237 (see Keynes A33). THIS EDITION IS NOW UNCOMMON IN ITS OWN RIGHT. Not recorded by Enser.