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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 2014 edition of "The Silent Division," which was originally published in 1935. This edition has new editorial material, and also contains another work "Concerning One Man's War (pp. 251-452), which is the second half of O. E. Burton's previously unpublished autobiography. World War I history. xxvi, (27)-467, [1 (blank)] pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 240 x 180mm. "This is in no sense a book of fiction but one of facts and of the reaction of a kindly soul to his experiences as a front-line Digger. In it is to be found a truer reflection both of the grim side of the thing we call war as of its lighter and carefree aspect than is commonly found in war books." - from the original Foreword by Major General Sir Andrew Russell.