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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Revised and Expanded Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with red titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book was originally published by the author on behalf of The Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades Association. This edition was revised and expanded by the author and published in 1975. This book is a remarkable collection of the personal accounts of officers and men who served in the front lines with their machine guns in one of the most ghastly of wars, in conditions now almost unimaginable, in battles that spread over three continents. The strength of the book lies in the fact that these are the very word of the narrators, complete with characteristic modes of expression and minor unconventionalities of emphasis and spelling. Now there are no more survivors to tell the story, and without this record these vivid recollections would be lost forever. Ref P 4.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo, second revised and enlarged edition, pp,238, illustrated, maroon titled green cloth, pictorial clipped dust-jacket.