Edmund (Military historian) Dane

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from the sources I found. Public catalog and ebook records consistently identify Edmund Dane as a military historian and connect the name with several wartime and postwar works, including The Battle of the Rivers, Hacking Through Belgium, and The Battles in Flanders.

Those records also show a wider range than the label might suggest. In addition to books on the Western Front, Edmund Dane is credited with British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918 and British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918, as well as later titles on economics such as The Common Sense of Economic Science and Wages and Labour Costs. Taken together, they suggest a writer interested in explaining large public questions—especially war, strategy, and policy—to ordinary readers.

Because reliable sources with personal details were scarce, it is safest to treat Edmund Dane as a lightly documented authorial name attached to a series of accessible nonfiction works from the 1910s and 1920s. If you are coming to these books for narrative military history, the appeal is their direct, period style and their effort to map complicated campaigns into a readable story.