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Hardcover published by The World's Work, fourth reprint October 1944. The jacket is worn and rubbed in places, with several small chips and tears, and the spine is sunned. The jacket has obviousy been recycled due to war time shortages, as the reverse is the jacket for "Flowers for the Judge" by Margaret Allingham. The boards are square and solid, but with some wear to the edges, and several light marks. All pages are clean and unmarked. From www.allreaders.com : "Set mostly in England in 1940 or 1941, this slim novel is Kersh's tribute to the Coldstream Guards, an elite British military outfit with whom he served during that period. Although war (the First and the impending Second) and the Germans surround the story, there really isn't any battle on stage here: Most of the book describes the transformation of average British guys into fighting trim during their basic training, although we hear the stories of old vets from wars past as well. The vast majority of the text is dialogue, in various British dialects. It's a portrait of a people, as well as a close look at how armies are built."
