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"The Great War" book collecting
If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The
Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english. Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? Art Layton Stamford, CT USA |
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Art Layton asked....
If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english. Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? I understand that the book detailed below is considered to be one of the best, looking at the war from the German point of view.. Junger, Lt. Ernst: The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front, London, United Kingdom Chalto & Windus Ltd 1929 Junger was a Lieutenant in the 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment. His memoirs are recognised as one of the finest to come out of the First World War Stan Giltedge Books Chelmsford |
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Art Layton wrote:
If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english. Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? Art Layton Stamford, CT USA Hi Art, As to titles, I can suggest a few (in addition to the obvious All Quiet on the Western Front): Arnold Zweig, The Case of Sergeant Grishka Arnold Zweig, Education Before Verdun Cpt.Gilbert Nobbs, On the Right of the British Line Bertram Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Lenin in Zurich Alexander Solzhenitzyn, August 1914 Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram Cpt. von Rintelen, The Dark Invader Cpt. Donald Macintyre, Jutland Lowell Thomas, Raiders of the Deep Lowell Thomas, Count Luckner: The Sea Devil Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert Leon Wolff, In Flanders Fields John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace Some of them make good paired reading, such as: Solzhenitsyn, August, 1914 and Tuchman, The Guns of August Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram and Rintelen, The Dark Invader Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia and Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert I grant that the three on the start of the Russian Revolution are not strictly on WWI itself, but I consider the former to be inextricably linked to the latter. I would like to say a few words about the Nobbs book, which I picked up at a tag sale two weekends ago and which I quickly read shortly after that. Nobbs wrote a memoir of his brief role in the war. He was transported as a company commander of territorial soldiers (i.e., new volunteers, not regular army) to France, marched straight to the Somme and was given orders to attack a day or so later. The orders were changed at the last hour (literally) and the point of his attack altered to charge the middle of an area defended on three sides. Dutifully, his company of 135 men attacked. Within a short time, he and another man reached within 10 yards of the German line, but with all the rest of the company dead. The other man was sent back to call for reinforcements and killed on the way. Nobbs took a bullet through the left temple and out the right eye. He was captured by the Germans and blinded for life. It is a powerful story. Francis A. Miniter |
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Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert Leon Wolff, In Flanders Fields Art, Go for 7 Pillars of Wisdom rather than Revolt in the Desert - the latter was a reduced version that Lawrence created from his Ltd Edition of 7 Pillars (£60,000 today!) in 6 weeks, so its not a great production. Plus - I would think any collection of WW1 is incomplete without poetry from the trenches - Sassoon, Owen, Brooke and Graves not to mention the multitude of others, no less virtuous yet simply forgotten! Cheers, Tom L-M |
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Art Layton wrote:
If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? Personally, I'd probably want to start with the War Poets. I also find war propaganda quite fascinating. I don't know much about WWI propaganda, but I have one title, The Ignoble Warrior, by Robertson Scott, that gives me a bit of an insight. It's a bilingual Japanese/English publication, with numerous cartoons by Louis Raemakers, facsimile letters, etc., all calculated to turn popular (Japanese) opinion against the Germans. It's interesting to see the ins and outs of the attempt, especially in view of the fact that it failed and Japan turned to militarism and allied with Germany over the following years. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message ...
Art Layton wrote: If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english. Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? Art Layton Stamford, CT USA Hi Art, snip I would like to say a few words about the Nobbs book, which I picked up at a tag sale two weekends ago and which I quickly read shortly after that. Nobbs wrote a memoir of his brief role in the war. He was transported as a company commander of territorial soldiers (i.e., new volunteers, not regular army) to France, marched straight to the Somme and was given orders to attack a day or so later. The orders were changed at the last hour (literally) and the point of his attack altered to charge the middle of an area defended on three sides. Dutifully, his company of 135 men attacked. Within a short time, he and another man reached within 10 yards of the German line, but with all the rest of the company dead. The other man was sent back to call for reinforcements and killed on the way. Nobbs took a bullet through the left temple and out the right eye. He was captured by the Germans and blinded for life. It is a powerful story. Ah, yes, the Battle of the Somme. England's finest moment. Sixty thousuand men march shoulder to shoulder across open fields into german machine guns. By the end of the day, sixty thousand are dead. Art Layton Stamford CT |
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Art Layton wrote:
Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? From the Exlibris archives: ___________________________________ For World War One - You might try: John Marrin G. & D. I. Marrin & Sons 149 Sandgate Road Folkestone Kent / CT20 2DA GREAT BRITAIN Phone: 011 44 130 325 3016 (Posted by Ron Lieberman, http://tinyurl.com/25ltm) ___________________________________ From John Marrin's website: "John Marrin specializes in finding rare books and interesting items from the first World War." (http://www.johnmarrin.com/) Sounds as good a place to start as any. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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"michael adams" wrote in message ...
"Art Layton" wrote in message om... Ah, yes, the Battle of the Somme. England's finest moment. Sixty thousuand men march shoulder to shoulder across open fields into german machine guns. By the end of the day, sixty thousand are dead. ... No it was around 19 thousand actually. Around one third of of the reported casualities. Sorry, got confused with the Third Battle of Ypres. also known as Passcehndaele. At the Tyne Cot Cemetary, there are 12, 000 graves and a memorial to 35, 000 men whose bodies were not found. Art Layton Stamford CT |
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(Art=A0Layton)wrote:
If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english.......... Art, You might enjoy reading an ALS from the War Poet, Robert Nichols. I posted it to RCB back in November, 2001: http:www.tinyurl.com/yt4xd At that time I was thinking of beginning a collection of War Poets, but never followed through. In my travels, however, I did acquire a copy of '"233 Items From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon," a catalogue from the House of El Dieff ( I collect catalogues of the libraries of authors, bibliophiles, etc.). Some of the books in Sassoon's library were presentation copies from other war poets. At any rate, the catalogue is relatively inexpensive and worth reading. Jerry Morris Welcome to Moi's Books About Books: http://www.tinyurl.com/hib7 My Sentimental Library http://www.picturetrail.com/mylibrary and moislibrary.com http://www.tinyurl.com/hisn |
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"Tom L-M" wrote in message
... Plus - I would think any collection of WW1 is incomplete without poetry from the trenches - Sassoon, Owen, Brooke and Graves not to mention the multitude of others, no less virtuous yet simply forgotten! The finest private press book in my collection is a copy of Sassoon's *The Path to Peace* (Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960), # 83/500, described as part of the "wonderous flowering from the Stanbrook Abbey Press: in a few years from 1956 the Benedictine sisters in their print-shop, armed with elegant, newly acquired types by the eminent Dutch typographer Jan van Krimpen and with a devoted scriptorium, made several books--among them . . . Siegfried Sassoon's *The Path to Peace* (1960) celebrating his conversion--in which the love of the task well done seems to shine from the page."--John Byrne, "Private Press Books," in *Antiquarian Books: A Companion*, ed. P. Bernard (Philadelphia: U. of Penn. Pr., 1994), p. 338. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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