It’s usual to see the ten-years-after war books boom as being sparked by the publication of Remarque’s All Quiet in 1929. So it’s quite interesting to see this in a letter from Jonathan Cape to T.E.Lawrence in July 1928:
The Enormous Room is printed, and is being published on July 20th… I always remember you continually advising me to publish this book. I fought shy of it because war books were entirely at a discount then, but the conditions have changed now, I think. We have done quite well with young Gristwood’s The Somme which Wells sent to me.
