Broken Images: A Journal by John Guest (RB233)

Published 1949: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 231 very clean and bright pages, speckled foxing on the endpapers and edges. The dust jacket is shabby, ripped and rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact. (RB233)

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This book won the Royal Society of Literature Award. The authors experience in the Second World War in England, Africa and Italy with the 83rd Light Anti Aircraft Battery and the 11th City of London Yeomanry Light Anti Aircraft Regiment.

Reviewed in the United States on 18 July 2016
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This memoir of John Guest’s service as an artillery officer in North Africa and Italy is more about the wildflowers of Tunisia, T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and Guest’s audience with the pope than actual combat. The war was an opportunity for him to see the world from a different vantage point: his body close to the dirt and mud wherever he went, his mind on art and nature’s beauties. I identified with the workarounds Guest developed to make the inconvenience and danger of his actual service secondary to his collecting of artistic impressions. Long out of print but appears on many ‘neglected classics’ lists.

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