BUCHAN, John.
A History of the Great War.
First Edition of John Buchan's A History of the Great War; Warmly inscribed by Him
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1921.
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First edition of Buchan's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Lord Inverforth with the kindest regards his friend of over forty years John Buchan Nov. 1921." The recipient, Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth was a close friend of Buchan's. Both Scotsmen received military appointments in the First World War. Inverforth, the founder of a prominent shipbuilding firm in Glasgow, served as Surveyor General of Supplies from 1917–1919 and Minister of Munitions from 1919–1921. During the war, Buchan was sent out to the Western Front to be attached to the British Army's General Headquarters Intelligence Section, to assist with drafting official communiques for the press. On arrival he received a field-commission as a second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps and in 1917, was appointed Director of Information under Lord Beaverbrook. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. Rare and desirable signed.
Vivid and authoritative, John Buchan's masterly history of the First World War was written while the war was still in progress. While admirably cool in tone, it has the immediacy of fine journalism. Its briskly moving narrative charts the progress of the war in all the main theaters of action, including what must surely be the very first history of war in the air. It ranks among his finest achievements, and remains one of the clearest and best accounts we have of the world-shaking conflict of 1914-18.
A History of the Great War.
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