Montague and C.P. Scott were responsible for turning the Manchester Guardian into a campaigning newspaper, and were unimpeachably liberal (small “l”), in favour of Home Rule, and hostile to both the Boer War and the Great War. Montague perversely signed up for the army in 1914, feeling the need to die his hair black to appear younger - H.W. Nevinson described him as “the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage.” His most well-known novel is Disenchantment, a Great War novel, which was followed by this, a dystopian anti-militarist novel set in a fictional European state. Edges slightly foxed, otherwise a near fine copy in dust jacket, slightly faded on the spine. On the front pastedown is a small label “Weekly Terms”, pricing this book at 3 pence for 4 days, but this copy was certainly never circulated.
