Second Hand WAR
Author : Ludwig Renn
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Condition
Very good hardback in good very scarce original dust jacket. The light-grey cloth binding remains sound and clean with some age-related toning to the page edges. The dust jacket is complete but shows noticeable wear, including chipping and loss at the head of the spine, edge wear, creasing and small tears. Internally clean with light age toning and occasional pencil annotations to the front endpapers, top right corner missing on front endpaper. Binding remains firm throughout. A highly presentable example of a scarce edition, particularly uncommon with its original dust jacket.
Details
General - Pages : 364 | Images : No illustrations. Text throughout. | Publisher : Martin Secker | Place of Publication : London, UK | Language : English
Hardback - Year of Publication : 1930 | Edition : 1930 reprint (cheaper edition) | Size : 190mm x 130mm
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A landmark First World War novel and one of the most powerful anti-war books to emerge from the interwar period. Written by former German officer Ludwig Renn, War provides a stark and unembellished account of life in the German Army from the opening campaigns of 1914 through the trench warfare of the Western Front and the collapse of Germany in 1918.
Unlike many contemporary war memoirs, Renn's work is notable for its detached realism and refusal to romanticise combat. The narrative follows ordinary soldiers through marches, battles, wounds, trench life and the grinding attrition of industrial warfare. Upon publication it was widely compared with All Quiet on the Western Front and quickly established itself as one of the classic literary accounts of the First World War.
This 1930 Cheap Edition is made particularly desirable by the survival of its original publisher's dust jacket, a feature seldom encountered today. An important work of military literature and a significant addition to collections of First World War history, German literature and anti-war writing.
