1916 Kingdom of the Blind 1st Ed Hardcover E Phillips Oppenheim WW1 Novel CLEAN!
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The Kingdom of the Blind
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Published by Little, Brown, Boston (1916)
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Excellent 1st Edition Hardcover Book! The binding is tight and all 305 pages within are bright white with NO writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds with the exception of a gift inscription on the inside front cover. The covers look EXCELLENT considering this book is 106 years old, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled carefully and packaged securely! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!
Some Book Reviews:
Dharma rated it & it was amazing!
Espionage and Counter-Espionage set during World War One.
Surgeon-Major Hugh Thomson is engaged to the beautiful Geraldine Conyers. Ostensibly responsible for military hospitals on the front in France, in reality he is in charge of military counter-intelligence. He is on the trail of a German master spy who seems to be able to travel across the lines and back and forth between Germany and England.
Captain Granet is a wounded war hero recently awarded the DSO and recovering after having been captured twice and escaping twice from the Germans. He meets and falls in love with Geraldine Conyers.
This novel was written and published in 1916, during the early years of World War 1. It relates with remarkable clarity the thoughts and feelings of the upper class in London during the early, romantic, phase of the war. Although there are intimations of the brutality of Ypres and other battles, there is still the remarkable fluidity between the battlefields in France, and society in London. Much is made of the ignorance and cowardice of politicians and businessmen, and the courage of military men in confronting the enemy.
The plot evolves around the development and implementation of secret war weapons aimed at German Submarines. Airplanes are still a novelty, and there is a nighttime Zeppelin raid on a secret weapons laboratory.
Oppenheim served as a press liaison with the British military in France. He was one of the authors who notably tried to warn Britain about German intentions before the war, and then cursed the inadequate British conduct of the war. Writing clearly from the viewpoint of the upper class, this novel is a interesting window into the thoughts and feelings of the participants.
Kara rated it & it was amazing!
This book was written smack dab in the middle of WWI in 1916, and as such it gives a remarkable window into the thoughts and attitudes of the day. There's a spy story here too, but what I thought fascinating was to see that people in 1916 were going around saying the war was a splendid chance to do some daring do and that the problem was soldiers weren't fighting hard enough. The understanding of just where a war of attrition leads you was clearly a 20/20 sight.
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