TURNER, P.W. and R.H. Haigh NOT FOR GLORY , London: Robert Maxwell, 1969.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Previous owner's name and date written neatly in ink at the bottom of the title-page. xv, 111pp, including Bibliography and Index. Appendix: Facts and Figures of the War. With frontispiece and 48 black-and-white photographs and 2 maps, plus one folding map which is facing page 48 and not page 40 as stated. The authors tell the story of the First World War through the experiences of Gilbert Hall - a working man from the village of Elsecar in Yorkshire - who became an amateur soldier in 1914 and ended up as a professional officer in 1918. Showing how millions of men lived under inhuman conditions for months on end, slaughtering and in turn being slaughtered over the same piece of blood-soaked land, and what effect such horror had upon the soldiers and civilians caught up in the struggle. (Book ref. 7531)  £12.00

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