Commandant Edouard Chapouilly (1 results)

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). Two smartly bound volumes on the history of the Great War, in the original French language. French. Two volumes. Scarce works. This set includes: La Grande Guerre Relation de l'Etate-Major Russe: Concentration des Armees Premieres Operations en Prusse Orientale en Galicie et an Pologne (1 Aout - 24 Novembre 1914), 1926. Illustrated with ten folding maps and many in-text maps and plans. Collated complete. Translated from the Russian by Commandant Eduoard Chapouilly, a French military writer and soldier. De La Conduite De La Guerre: La Manoeuvre Pour La Bataille, 1927. Seventh edition. Illustrated with five folding maps to the rear and many in-text maps and plans. Collated complete. Written by Ferdinand Foch, a French general, Marshal of France and member of the Académie Française who distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front during the First World War. Bound in contemporary half brown calf with brown cloth boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine. book.