Harry Butters, R.F.A. An American Citizen Life and War Letters

by Mrs. Denis O'Sullivan, a, M. P. Colonel the

$750 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

New York: John Lane Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. This unusual and elusive book is about a U.S. volunteer from California, Harry Butters, who volunteered and lost his life in the British Army during the First World War more than half a year before the U.S. formally entered the war in 1917. This first edition is notable for inclusion of a striking 10 September 1916 tribute letter about Butters by Winston Churchill,

• Binding: Hardcover

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