Junger’s memoirs of the conflict are adjudged, transcendent of allegiance, among the greatest soldier-accounts of the Great War in the contemporary assessment of Cyril Falls, ‘there is in little of the personal modesty which is to be found in most British narratives of men who have done exceptionally well, but they are written with ‘extraordinary zest and power’ (‘War Books, p.209) and offer an insight in to the sense of duty compelling what Mottram describes in his Introduction to ‘The Storm of Steel’ as this ‘high-minded devotee of personal combat’. xii, 264, crown 8vo, original burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded (as often), blind-stamped border to both boards, some light rubbing to cloth, compliments slip of H J Adams (Theatre Tickets, Mayfair) laid in, light crease to fore-margin of flyleaf (continuing to frontispiece and title page) – dust wrapper price clipped with backstrip panel browned and a little chipped at head, some light handling marks, a small amount of internal repair to outer corners of front panel, very good indeed. ‘Copse 125’: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918 Chatto and Windus 1930 – FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece photograph, one page with small pen mark to margin, pp. Chatto and Windus 1929 – FIRST ENGLISH EDITION – a few faint spots to prelims, recurrent at rear, both boards with some faint mottled fading, slight lean to spine, dust wrapper price clipped with backstrip panel browned, a few faint spots to borders and lightly nicked and chipped, touch of creasing at head of inner margin of rear panel, very good. ‘The Storm of Steel’: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front. A pair of first edition, first printings published between 19 by Chatto and Windus.

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