Physical description

Small hardcover book with a dark red dustjacket. The spine is torn at the top and bottom and there is an old tape mark on the bottom of the spine. The front has a black silouette of a soldier playing a bugle along the right side edge, beneath him is a solid black line with the author's name printed below across the bottom of the cover. The title is printed in black ink across the top.
The title and author are also printed in black text on the top part of the spine, further down it reads '3/6 net' and 'Herbert Joseph'.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'B46' [Handwritten in pencil on the first page]
'From / Mrs J deKey Whitsed / [?] / Johannesburg Gen : Hosp / 11.12.32' [Handwritten in black ink on an official Johannesburg Hospital letterhead that is glued onto the first page of the book.]
'C Beckett' [Handwritten in blue ink on the back of the attached letter]
'Returned Army Nurses Club of Vic. / [?] ' [Stamped in black and purple ink on multiple pages]

Summary

"This is the Diary of a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in Salonika (present-day Thessaloniki in Greece) from June, 1917, til the end of the war, and a little beyond. It is a vividly written and entertaining piece of autobiography, enlivened by an attractive sense of humour. We feel the book will interest not only the V.A.D.'s of the Great War, but also the large public which is ever on the look-out for authentic books concerning the war period." - from inside the dust jacket.