Publication details: George Routledge, n.d. [circa1918,]
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Inscribed by the author: 'To Basil Clarke who has been like a big brother to me James Hodson 2/xii/18'. A memoir of the Great War, scarce, recounting his time with the 20th Royal Fusiliers before he was invalided out with 'heart-trouble' with the Fourth Battle of Ypres still ongoing. It includes a couple of poems.The recipient was a notable war correspondent, who had been the first reporter to arrive at Ypres following German bombardment. Both he and Hodson were Lancashire men (Altrincham and Bury respectively); Hodson, too, became a war correspondent - writing a multi-volume account of the Second World War for Gollancz, who also published his First World War novel 'Grey Dawn - Red Night' in 1929.
FIRST EDITION, the paper a little browned, pp. [viii], 120, foolscap 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter faded, corners a little pushed, some light marks, touch of wear at corners, good
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