NOT FOR GLORY. A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE 1914-18 WAR.

Robert Maxwell, London, 1969, first edition. 113 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions, 3 maps (1 fold-out). "This is a book about war....the war seen through the eyes of one man - A working man who became an amateur soldier in 1914, who joined as a private for a continental holiday and ended the war as an officer and a professional soldier. Gilbert Hall's middle twenties were lived in the midst of the most terrible fighting war in history. A war which raised to new heights the horror to which nations were inexorably drawn in order to achieve their ends....Whatever the reasons, or supposed reasons, the means to achieve the ends entailed millions of men living under inhuman conditions for months on end, slaughtering and in t u r n b e i n g slaughtered over the same piece of blood soaked graound....(The authors) have tried to show what effect such horror had upon the soldiers and civilians caught up in the struggle. No one who took part in the Great War of 1914-19 e sc ap ed u n sc at he d in both mind and body; it was and still remains in their memory as the major event in their lives." Tiny soiling mark on free rear endpaper, very light wrinkle at top fore-edge of first two pages, light wrinkling at botto m of spi ne, sm al l s hal low b ump at bottom edge of front board. Dust jacket is price clipped, has moderate edge wear/wrinkling, tear and old tape repair at top of spine, tiny chips and old tape at bottom of spine, wear at bottom edge of spine h as been col ored wi th r ed i nk. Ve ry Good/Good-.