Report of the First Army Expeditionary Forces, Organization and Operations.

135pp. Black pebbled cloth, gilt titles on spine and front board. Rubbing to front gutter, and to the four corners. Binding secure, spine straight, corners solid. Marbled endpapers, pages toned but clean and unmarked otherwise. Brigadier General H. A. (Hugh Aloysius) Drums copy, as indicated by titles on front board and appreciative inscription from Pershing on blank front endpaper. Drum was a career US Army officer whose career included service in both the First and Second World Wars. He was chief of staff of the First United States Army during World War I, and commander of First Army during the initial days of World War II. Pershing named Drum an assistant chief of staff of the First Army during World War I. After the war, Drum served as the director of training and assistant commandant for the School of the Line at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and commandant of the Command and General Staff College, where he taught the doctrine of open warfarestressing maneuver and marksmanship over frontal attacks and firepower, using experienced troops, and supported by large artillery barragesthat the American Expeditionary Forces had attempted to practice in France. Pershings inscription reads as follows: "To Brigadier General H.A. Dum, whose distinguished services as Chief of Staff of the 1st Army, and whose personal loyalty are among the most treasured memories I carry of the World War. With Sincere Affection, John J. Pershing, Sept. 12, 1924 Size: Octavo.