Grapes of Wrath

A battalion's part in a great push on the western front, told by a serving officer and published in 1917 while the war was still going on - the wire, the guns, the mud and the men. Boyd Cable was the pen name of a soldier writing under censorship, and the restraint is what makes it land. This edition is bound with a gallery of 52 plates, among them paintings by Edvard Munch, C. R. W. Nevinson and George Harcourt, on subjects from War Profiteers to Paths of Glory.