The Great War and Modern Memory

First printing of the first edition. "The absorbing and moving exploration of the first great hell of the modern world -- trench warfare." The British Great War 'emerged as the original paradigm for much that seems murderous or absurd today' . . . 'especially such novelists as Pynchon, and Vonnegut." Clean text block. Plum cloth with gilt title on spine. Jacket is chipped at both spine ends, now wrapped in Brodart. 363 pages.