Ole Luk-Oie - The Green Curve And Other Stories - 1911

Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868–1951) was a British Army officer who played a part in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. This book of sketches was originally written for the entertainment of soldiers. Swinton relied among others his experiences during the boer war in South Africa.

Ole Luk-Oie - The Green Curve And Other Stories - Edingburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1911 - 1st edition (shilling edition) - Letterpress of the original edition in 1909 (livraisons in Blackwood's Magazine & Macmillan's magazine) - VII+318 +2p.(pub.) - Hardcover: cloth binding with green printed front cover and spine - 12.80×19cm - Good copy: handwritten, dated attribution (1912) & owner's stamp on the front flyleaf, foxing spots on the flyleaves, some stains on the boards, spine UV discolored, age discolouration in the outer margins of the text block, linen reading fold on spine/front cover worn through, signs of use and wear on the cover.

•      Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868–1951) was a British Army officer who played a part in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. Ole Luk-Oie (Swinton) was also a war correspondent and author of several short stories on military themes. He is credited, along with fellow officer Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Dally Jones, with having initiated the use of the word "tank" as a code-name for the first tracked, armored fighting vehicles. In the years leading up to the First World War, he served as a staff officer and as an official historian of the Russo-Japanese War. The War Minister, Lord Kitchener, appointed Swinton as the official British war correspondent on the Western Front. Journalists were not allowed at the front, and Swinton's reports were censored leading to an effectively uncontroversial although even-handed reporting.

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