The Dark Forest

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition (George H. Doran emblem on title page). No jacket. A few faint spots on front board. 1916 Hard Cover. 320 pp. "The Dark Forest" by Hugh Walpole is set in Galicia at the Polish Front during WWI. Two Englishman are serving with a Russian medical unit, and the book follows their relationships with their Russian companions and each other. The horrors of war are laid out quite clearly to help readers get a true feel for what it was like to fight and serve one's country in one of the most important conflicts in recent history.