Part 11 (1/2)

FIELD AMBULANCE SKETCHES. By a Corporal.

Crown 8vo. 4/- net.

These sketches by a stretcher-bearer are extraordinarily clear and actual. ”Behind a Raid” is a wonderfully vivid piece of work; the reader lives every second of these thrilling hours, and the whole scene is touched in masterly style. The other pages are equally fine. To the civilian they bring home the actualities of War; while soldiers of every cla.s.s will enjoy them in their fine truthfulness.

SAPPER DOROTHY LAWRENCE: The only English Woman Soldier. Late Royal Engineers, 51st Division, 179th Tunnelling Company, B.E.F. With Portraits.

Crown 8vo. 5/- net.

Miss Dorothy Lawrence enjoys the distinction of having been the only British woman soldier, and in this book she sets out her varied experiences, first in Paris, where she did the necessary drills, and finally ”up the line.”

A KUT PRISONER. By H. C. W. Bishop. Ill.u.s.trated.

Crown 8vo. 6/- net.

More exciting than any fict.i.tious story of adventure the main part of this book is occupied by the story of the author's escape, in company with three other British officers, from Kastamuni in Asia Minor. Mr. Bishop was captured at the fall of Kut, and his narrative includes a description of the appalling long march from Kut to Kastamuni, during which such a large proportion of our men succ.u.mbed to their sufferings which were wilfully aggravated by their captors.

WITH THE c.h.i.n.kS. By Lieut. Daryl Klein. With Ill.u.s.trations. Crown 8vo. 6/6 net.

The author of ”With the c.h.i.n.ks” was a civilian in China who volunteered as an officer for the training of Chinese coolies who were brought to France to form Labour Brigades to work behind the lines. The characters of his charges are sketched with considerable skill, and the voyage via Canada and the Panama Ca.n.a.l to France is picturesquely described. The book forms a unique and interesting page in the voluminous History of the War.

THE FOLLOWING ARE IN IMMEDIATE PREPARATION: TALES OF A TROOPER. By A. Clutha Mackenzie. Crown 8vo.

These tales convey in the most living manner the experiences and sensations of a typical Anzac en route to the war, then landed at Gallipoli, and finally ”knocked out” in the terrible battle for the ridge.

A PRISONER IN TURKEY. By John Still, author of ”Poems in Captivity,” etc. Crown 8vo.

The author of this remarkable book was largely instrumental in conveying to the British Government, by messages, in an ingenious code of his own invention, sent at considerable personal risk, very valuable information regarding the treatment of British Prisoners in Turkey. In this book, which is an account of over three years' imprisonment in Turkish hands, at Constantinople and at Afion Kara Hissar, Mr. Still gives a very forceful and vivid, but restrained account of the trials, sufferings and dangers through which he and his fellow prisoners pa.s.sed during their long captivity.

WARD TALES. By E. Chivers Davies. Crown 8vo.

In this capital little record of V.A.D. work in a hospital Miss Davies combines very cleverly two points of view-the Nurses' and Hospital Staff's, and the Tommies'. The author has humour, insight, sympathy, and a very quick eye for a situation, and in the course of her sketches she synthesizes the atmosphere and outlook of a big Military Hospital, especially as it appears to a V.A.D. Soldiers, and others, will delight in the truthful and entertaining pictures of this admirable little book, as will all who have served, and are serving, in hospital.

BEHIND BOSCHE BARS. By E. Warburton. Crown 8vo.

A cleverly written description of a young English officer's internment as a prisoner of war in Germany. As his experiences were thoroughly typical of the later treatment by the Germans of officer prisoners, his account forms a very valuable record of this aspect of the war. The writer gives the Germans credit for some kind acts, while laughing at them for their stiffness, pedantry and stupidity. He conveys a strongly actual picture of the whole body of prisoners in every camp-their ways of life, outlook, habits and feelings.

WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA. By Douglas Walshe. Ill.u.s.trated. Crown 8vo.

This is a very bright account of war experiences in Macedonia, by an A.S.C. officer, who has the gift of making his scenes living scenes. Mr. Walshe's narrative is very human, and he gives us an excellent bird's eye view of the country, and the tangle of races inhabiting it.

FOUR MONTHS IN ITALY IN WAR-TIME. By Beatrice Thomson. Crown 8vo.

This book gives a remarkably clear idea of hospital life, and also of Italian character and ways. It is a fine record of service, and in its quiet restrained humanity it is a chronicle which deserves to be widely read. The author served for several months in a war hospital in France, and her sketches of her patients' characters and her record of their talk and behaviour give us the real Italy.