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Max Plowman's Report
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A Subaltern on the Somme
On the first day of the Somme 60,000 British men fell and Max Plowman was there to witness it all. From the platform at Charing Cross in July 1916 to the deck of the "Glenesk Castle" as he returned to Britain the following year, Plowman's war was fought on more than one front. The greater fight became the struggle with his own inner turmoil, constantly bubbling beneath the surface as he faced the mud-caked nightmare of the Somme. Capable and brave, on the outside there was a uniform, striving to present an military appearance, while on the inside there was a seething mind, ready to revolt. Soberly recounting the routine, the boredom, the mud and the horrors, Plowman also studies the characte...
A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916
Page proofs for the first edition of Max Plowman's memoir, published under the pseudonym "Mark VII" with imprint: London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1927. Marked throughout by the printer and the author, including some minor author revisions. The title page bears both the Dent imprint and that of E.P. Dutton, New York, the latter marked for deletion (the first American edition was issued by Dutton in 1928). Includes a printing of the dust jacket cover, on cover stock.
