author
Arthur Mills
1887–1955
A British Army officer turned prolific novelist, he drew on his First World War experience in vivid early memoirs before going on to write a long run of thrillers and adventure stories. His books move quickly, with a soldier’s eye for danger and momentum.
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With my regiment : From the Aisne to La Bassée
by Arthur Mills
About the author
Born in Cornwall in 1887, Arthur Frederick Hobart Mills was educated at Wellington and Sandhurst before serving in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. His wartime service shaped some of his earliest and best-known books, including With My Regiment from the Aisne to La Bassée and Hospital Days.
Mills came from a notably literary family and went on to become a prolific writer himself. Across the 1920s, 1930s, and beyond, he published many novels, especially thrillers, crime fiction, and adventure stories, building a reputation as a dependable storyteller with a brisk, dramatic style.
He died in 1955. Although he is not as widely remembered now as some of his contemporaries, his work still offers an interesting blend of firsthand war writing and popular fiction from the first half of the twentieth century.