Instructions for the Training of Divisions for Offensive Action. Reprint from Pamphlet Issued by British General Staff

98, wraps, figures, appendices, covers foxed, small tears in side margin of fr cover & a few pgs, ink name & stamp on front cover. The original pamphlet was issued by the British General Staff, War Office, in December 1916, and was edited at the Army War College in June 1917. War Department Document No. 623. Topics covered include issue of orders by divisional and brigade commanders, cooperation between artillery and infantry, formations and frontages, the assault, cooperation with contact airplanes, signal communications, situation reports, use of smoke bombs and cloud gas, machine guns, Lewis guns, action of snipers, patrols and scouts, action of medium trench mortars, action of bombers, rations and water, prisoners, wounded, enemy ruses, dress and equipment, documents and maps, and patrol work by aeroplanes, among many others.