Reviews for The Home Front in the Great War

The average rating for The Home Front in the Great War based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-03-05 00:00:00 Thomas Beyer Full of prints of postcards and other ephemera. Nice collection!

Review # 2 was written on 2010-07-07 00:00:00 Ronnie Miracle Read this because we have come across a whole lot of books in our library - not rude ones, I hasten to add - which came from Henry Spencer Ashbee's collection (they have the bookplates and the little leather spine label) and which are probably ones which the British Library redistributed as duplicates under the terms of his will. He is interesting to me as an autodidact, fluent in French and German, well-travelled and well-read, teaching himself the art of bibliography and becoming an expert on Cervantes, and also a book-collector of European literature and a connoisseur of decent bindings, an FRGS and a friend of such notable people as the traveller Richard Burton. I am not very interested in his sideline in porn, sorry, erotica, although how he managed to keep his activities separate and secret is intriguing, as is the history of clandestine publishing. The story of how his marriage eventually fell apart (actual reason unknown) and the way he treated his children thereafter is sad, and the jury is out on whether he is the author of "My secret life", a notorious anonymous smutty Victorian book (he could be, and it seems to be fantasy rather than a true memoir). Have to say I skipped some of the detail in the last part, which is a study of "My secret life" and the arguments for his authorship of it: it's not very edifying.