Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Published in 1930, this sequel continues George Sherston's account from training and transport into the trenches of the Western Front. He serves as an officer in raids and in the prolonged fighting on the Somme, is wounded, and returns to a Britain that talks of endurance while he grows sure the war is being prolonged without purpose. The narrative follows his protest, the threat of court-martial, and the compromise that sends him to a hospital rather than to prison. Fellow officers, men in his company, and civilian hosts are drawn without heroics. The book is a fictionalized infantry memoir, not an official campaign history.

Frontispiece and ten half-page. Full pale brown cloth covers printed with a design in red and black by Lamb. Mid-brown endleaves. Page tops stained brown. Mid-brown textured slipcase.