A Student in Arms
by Hankey, Donald
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Andrew Melrose, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 302 pages, seventh edition. The pages are lightly tanned, else clean unmarked and solid. "Donald Hankey was a writer who saw himself as a 'student of human nature' and peacetime Edwardian Britain as a society at war with itself. Wounded in a murderous daylight infantry charge near Ypres, Hankey began sending despatches to The Spectator from hospital in 1915. Trench life, wrote Hankey, taught that 'the gentleman' is a type not a social class. In one calm, humane, eyewitness report after another under the byline 'A Student in Arms', Hankey revealed how the civilian volunteers of Kitchener's Army, many with little stake in Edwardian society, put their betters to shame nonetheless. A runaway best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic, Hankey's prose vied in popularity with the poetry of Rupert Brooke. After he was killed on the Somme in another daylight infantry charge, Hankey joined Brooke as an international symbol of promise foregone. British propaganda backed publication in the-then neutral United States, yet at home Hankey had to dodge the censors to tell the truth as he saw it. " (Routledge)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021435
- Title
- A Student in Arms
- Author
- Hankey, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Andrew Melrose
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Keywords
- Military History World War One WW1
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