8vo. 325pp. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered in black, with the unclipped printed dustwrapper. A few stains and marks to boards, wrapper a little toned with minor water marks. Unusually for Williamson's war memoirs, the book is neither annotated or otherwise marked, save a crude pencil sketch of a male face on the FFEP. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed.

Georg Bucher was a German infantryman who, after joining up in 1914, served in the Marne, Ypres, Notre Dame de Lorette, the Vosges, Verdun, the Somme, Champagne, Chemin des Dames, Flanders, and back to Marne again. His direct experiences are recorded thus. Written as a private record, but eventually published in repost to an unnamed 'war-book which held up the German front-line soldier to the laughter of the world' (Bucher's introduction, dedicated to The Dead of Germany). He was the only one of his group of friends - with whom he saw through four years of warfare on the Western Front - to survive.

Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.