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NEWTON (Walt.)
The Soul of the Camp: A Derbyman's O'dyssey.
1st Ed., 112pp., frontis. sketch. Arthur H. Stockwell.
1920
#67063
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Critical, anti-authority memoirs of an unwilling conscript ensnared by the raising of the recruiting age to 50 & called up in April 1918. Describes a training camp in East Anglia with its uncivilised, brutalising, regime & (mostly) hated instructional staff ("In our camp, there were a surfeit of Captains & many Kings, their power we knew & felt, much of it was for evil... I understand it was considered unhealthy or unwise to send the lion tamers out with the Lions; nor does it surprise me in view of what I have both seen & heard in the camp, where I have come across men, normally of mild disposition, & in many instance men of high intellect, smarting under some hot indignity or deep humiliation received, at the whim or caprice of some striped or starred boor; absolutely thirsting for gore.") Orig. red cloth, gilt to front & sp., rather rubbed & worn having once been used as signage as a car park, with feint chalk legend to front: "Car Park 2d"! Rare & unusual memoirs, nevertheless. See illustration on our website.
£90
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