Kitchener's Mob The Adventures of an American in the British Army.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece, 202 pp., advertisements. Front hinge split (not detached), back strip darkened, contemporary newspaper account of author pasted on endpaper, tanning of pages under newsprint, a good copy. Hall, born in Iowa, was on vacation in the UK in the summer of 1914, when World War I began. Posing as a Canadian, he enlisted in the British Army, serving in the Royal Fusiliers as a machine gunner during the Battle of Loos. He was discharged after his true nationality was discovered, and returned to the US and wrote this, his first book, recounting his wartime experiences. He subsequently returned to France, where he joined the French-American Lafayette Escadrille before the United States officially entered the war. After the war, Hall co-wrote the Bounty Trilogy, including the classic 'Mutiny on The Bounty'. Item #42
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