Warner

1915 · Best.-Nr. 016621 — London: Blackie and Son 1915. 236pp maps some folding some colour and diagrams. Small three-line stamp by the lower edge of the title page no text affected. Page edges foxed tanned. Blind-stamped blue cloth boards in worn dust-jacket which has lost a section at the spine head and has insect damage at the flap folds. Four-page specimen section loosely inserted. The author has put into book form a course of lectures given to the elder half of the Officers' Training Corps at Harrow. It was intended that the book 'would set out some main illustrations of the success of the French at the time when they were the great military nation of Europe the reasons why they were so formidable and the circumstances in which they failed'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. Blackie and Son Hardcover