The Prisoners of Mainz. With illustrations by Captain R.T. Roussel (P.O.W. Mainz)

Alec WAUGH

Published by London: Chapman and Hall, 1919

About this Item

Spine slightly darkened and with some wear at head and tail, lettering-label very rubbed, free endpapers slightly embrowned. Alec Waugh (Alexander Raban Waugh, 1898-1981) published his first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), when he was just out of school. "By the time it became apparent that The Loom of Youth was a best-seller," records his nephew Auberon Waugh in the ODNB, "Waugh was a prisoner of war near Mainz, having fought at Passchendaele with the Dorset regiment and been captured as a machine-gunner near Arras." The Prisoners of Mainz (Roussel's frontispiece illustration is entitled "The Doom of Youth") is a good-natured account of his wartime experiences; 2pp. publisher's advertisement at end for The Loom of Youth (ninth edition, twentieth thousand) - "press opinions" from Captain C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and others.

Seller Inventory # GW100124

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Prisoners of Mainz. With illustrations by Captain R.T. Roussel (P.O.W. Mainz)
• Publisher: London: Chapman and Hall
• Publication Date: 1919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • First World War