Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" . 1100 pp.  Includes Editor Dedication; Editor's Note; Publisher's Note; Publisher's Foreword to the New Complete Edition, New York, N.Y, March, 1955; Introduction by Ernest Hemingway: Edited for the 1955 Edition. Crisp and bright red boards with black spine lettering, one nasty chip to the top edge of spine, else very fine; contained in a very good condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket, with associated tear and loss to same location on spine head. This copy with the ownership signature to the ffe of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.

"This book, so cherished by G.I's of World War II went "out of print" after the war, although the demand for it never ceased. But in this past year there has been a great increase of interest in Men At War, and in response to this demand this new edition is published, containing the Hemingway introduction complete (except for a few topical references) and all the material of the original edition...This book contains 82 great war stories of all time, selected by Ernest Hemingway to show what war is, how wars are won and lost, the great things and the little things, the courage and the pity of men and women at war. The authors include: Tolstoy, T.E. Lawrence, Stephen Crane, Victor Hugo, Charles Oman, Winston Churchill, James Hilton, Col. John W. Thomason, William Faulkner, Kipling, C.S. Forester, Alexander Woolcott, Marquis James, Hemingway and many others. There are 1100 pages of moving, exciting, thrilling reading that will absorb the interest of everyone. Many of the stories are of our time, all are contemporary in spirit: David fighting Goliath, the Greeks at Thermopylae, the valiant Crusaders, the men who won the Red Badge of Courage (that story is contained complete in this book), the shattered remnants of the Confederate Army, the Marines at Soissons - they are all as close to us as the men who fought at Dunkirk, at Pearl Harbor, at Midway, from the foxholes of Bataan. There is much great reading in this book and one of the finest things in it is Hemingway's introduction. In his personal statement about war and writing and men, he tells how and why he made this collection of stories, accounts and narratives as an attempt to give a true picture of men at war." (from jacket text)