NO RESERVE Thompson (Edward) These Men Thy Friends, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper, light spotting to initial pages, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine toned, slight wear to spine head, 8vo, 1927.

⁂ Thompson's novel is set on the Eastern Front, during the last eighteen months of the Mesopotamian campaign of WWI which was fought between the Allies - a mixture of Australian, British and British Empire (mainly Indian) troops - and the Central Powers, mainly from the Ottoman Empire. Fictionalised, it bears some basis in his own experiences.