English: Photograph of F. Britten Austin in the Red Book Magazine, 1918-08, p. 38. Text: THE World War has thus far produced only one really great new writer—Captain F. Britten Austin. He is only thirty years old; yet from the time he enlisted as a private—the day war was declared by England—until he was invalided home in 1917 he fought at Neuve Chapelle, Loos and Ypres and at the great battles of the Somme and the Ancre; and since his return to England he has been hard at work in the British War Office and has also written “Nach Verdun,” “In the Hindenburg Line,” “Zu Befehl,” “The Plateau of Thirst” and “The Prisoner of the Château.” Words about words are futile things: only you who have read any or all of these spirited battle-pieces know with what consummate clarity and brilliance he paints his war pictures, with what unsparing, force he drives home his dramas of high hazard and heroism.