Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917
232pp. In grey cloth-covered boards with silver titles on the spine. 8vo.Cloth very slightly bruised at spine ends). Hint of tanning in page margins, else internally neat, clean and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, illustrated (slightly bumped at spine base and along upper edge). An extraordinary diary and one of the more readable accounts of warfare ever published, Edwin Campion Vaughan's diaries cover an eight-month period spent on the Western Front during 1917.
