First edition, first impression. 150pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, red metallic lettering on spine. 8vo. Some minor indentations along lower edge of front panel, a little rounded on corners. Internally some slight browning to pages else neat, clean and tight. In its original dust wrapper, shelf worn, lightly bumped at edges, with matching indentations.
Eric Hiscock was fourteen - a schoolboy in Oxford - at the outbreak of the Great War. A year later he was a fully fledged soldier in the Royal Fusiliers, marching with men old enough to be his father. He received a baptism of fire in the Ypres Salient and experienced the horrors of the mud and blood at Passchendaele. A moving and disturbing first hand recollection of the front lines of the First World War.
