Quarto. Limited edition, copy 2297 of an unspecified number. [32]pp. With 17 monochrome portraits of sailors, soldiers, and airmen in the text. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed and spotted. Inked ownership inscription of Kennington's son, Christopher, to upper wrapper.

A family copy of the sole, limited, edition of Eric Kennington's (1888-1960) visual history of combatants during the Second World War, published at his own initiative for the benefit of workers in the factory were his brother was employed producing parts for Wellington and Halifax bombers. With an introduction by J. B. Priestley.