Other Ranks

William Vincent Tinsley’s Other Ranks is a classic, enduring memoir of World War I. First published in 1931, it was quickly lost in wave of other post—war novels and stories. Now, a lifetime after it was written, new generations of readers can experience Tisley’s vital memoir of life and death on the Western Front.

Other Ranks is the fictionalized account of author W. V. Tilsley’s war experiences from 1916-17 in the 55th West Lancashire Division. Throughout, Tilsley includes his criticism of...