Undertones of War

First published in 1928, this memoir records Edmund Blunden's service as a young officer with the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front from 1916, through the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele. He describes trenches, billets, and the wrecked farms of Flanders and Picardy, and he names companions who are wounded or killed. Interleaved poems look back at the same ground. The tone stays close to landscape, rumor, and daily duty rather than to staff decisions. The book is a personal infantry chronicle, not a general history of the war and not a novel.

Bound in dark brown cloth cover printed with Paul Nash's "Void of War" in green. Black endleaves. Black slipcase. Second printing 1991 spine redesigned to read "Undertones of War" without the author’s name.