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London: Editions Poetry, 1946. 141 pp., + XVI, printed dustwrapper. The front panel and the spine of the dustwrapper show browning, and three small stains. There's slight chipping at the heel of the spine, and the slightest trace of insect damage to the rear panel of dustwrapper. Internally, the pages have yellowed but otherwise there is no damage. The three full colour plates are bright and clean. Previous owners name is on the front endpaper in pencil. Just before the battle of el Alamein in 1942, chief Douglas and ran away from a safe staff job to rejoin his old regiment in the Western Desert. This book is the record, with a few names changed, offers battle experiences as a junior tank officer up to the fall of Tunis -- the first battle experience of a naturally good soldier who was finally killed in Normandy in 1944. It contains some of the finest descriptions of actual fighting the late war has produced.Douglas neither glorified nor shirked war; he tried to do his part to understand, to remember. Largely he succeeded. And war in this violent, vivid book, becomes the raw material of poetry. Keith Douglas' poems are probably the most mature and interesting written by any soldier poet in this war, and in this book is included the whole of his Middle East poetry.. First. Red Cloth Grey Boards. Good/Good. Illus. by Keith Douglas. Octavo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. War.