Military History - World War One, Macedonian/Salonica Front,...

Hammer

£85

Military History - World War One, Macedonian/Salonica Front, Great War Poetry - Rutter (Capt. Owen, ("Klip-Klip")), The Song of Tiadatha, Reprinted from the Balkan News, The B.S.F. Library Vol. 2 (complete in itself), first edition thus, Salonica [Thessaloniki/Thessalonica]: Published During the War, 1919, pp: [viii], 114, [1] (advert), [1] (blank), original wrappers, 18mo, [1]

Reprinted from the Balkan News (in which it appeared serially). B. S. F. Library: Vol.2. Poetry about the coming of age of a young British man of privilege during the Salonika Campaign in World War I. It was based loosely on (or was a parody of) Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha." It was quite popular in its later British editions. This Salonica edition is quite uncommon.