Hardback, Macdonald and Jane's, new edition, 1968; illustrated with lino-cuts by William Kermode.
Book condition: dust wrapper in a protective clear film; a very nice copy, but oddly the title page has been neatly cut out.

The publisher's blurb for this edition states: 'First published in 1930, this bitingly satirical account of an ordinary youth's experiences in World War 1 is a classic of war writing. Unintelligent, unimaginative, volunteering to fight he knows not quite why, John Bullock is the archetypal common soldire. As we follow his puzzled progress through his first brutal initiation into army life to the terrors of trench warfare in France, a vivid picture of the senselessness of war emerges. . . . This new edition, the first since the book was originally published, contains a new Preface and Epigraph by Henry Williamson.'

(For a further consideration of the book and the background to the writing of it, see Anne Williamson's The Patriot's Progress.)