Author: Morton, H V [ Henry Vollam ]
Title: I, James Blunt
Description: Methuen, 1942, 1st edition. Paperback, VG+. 56pp, edges a trifle rubbed, ownership signature, otherwise a near fine copy. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ Morton's future set short-story which takes the form of a diary written by an English tradesman chronicling the Nazi occupation of Great Britain in the autumn of 1944. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Information as propaganda at the start of World War II. It is Morton's only work of fiction. Henry Vollam Morton [ 1892 - 1979 ] journalist and pioneering travel writer. He first achieved fame in 1923 when he covered the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter.

Keywords: second world war, world war two, military history, modern fiction