Contemporary Inscription

An Anthology From the Services with contributions from H Treece-The Conscripts-poem; J Maclaren-Ross, J Pudney, A Rook, K Rhys, A Lewis, Woodrow Wyatt, J Atkins, J Brooke, L Little, Flying Officer X(H E Bates), S Keyes, etc. A very good copy. (J Maclaren-Ross, H Treece, J Pudney, A Rook, A Lewis, J Brooke, Woodrow Wyatt, H E Bates, S Keyes, K Rhys.)

Inside flap: "It is to be hoped that this volume of Bugle Blast, containing the work of twenty three writers of the services and intended as the first of a series of such collection, will not only provide stimulating material for readers whoseinterest lies more in the imaginative work that is emerging out of the war, but may also hearten those younger writers, most of them servicemen, who feel perhaps that even if they do continue to write under stress, their work will find no publisher's sympathetic consideration. The names of the editors of Bugle Blast are themselves evidence of its intentions. Reginald Moore is known to a wide public as an editor who is constantly seeking the work of new and promising writers for his short story collections, and Corpl. Jack Aistrop, whose stories Anna anad Death in the Midst of What published by Mr. Moore, revelaed him as a fresh and vigorous force towards the development of the short story, sought to encourage Service writing in his unit of the R.E. by running a paper called The Bugle, which teh title of our book partly derives.
Regarding the book itself, to quote from the foreward, whilst 2we have restricted the subject matter of this volume more or less to dealing with life in wartime, we have allowed ourselves freedom in every other respect. That is, the writers are both known and unknown, and we did not levy uppon them any suggestion as to what readers might wish to receive: they wrote as they pleased"