Author: Percin, Général (Alexandre).
Title: L'Artillerie aux manoeuvres de Picardie en 1910. Avec une Carte et 21 Croquis en couleurs hors texte.
Description: Paris, Nancy, Berger-Levrault, 1911. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Crown quarto. Pp. xviii, (ii), 252. Plus very large folding lithographic map and 21 folding lithographic sketches printed in additional colours. Half-title present. Original printed wrappers, worn and detached, upper wrapper gone; old military institutional stamp to half-title, some gathering loosening. Untrimmed copy in a very good internal condition. A copy that has been kept in military archives for decades and has been recently emerged, an excellent binding copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. A blueprint for the use of French artillery in WW1. The Picardy manoeuvres of 1910 provided testing ground for the recently set French doctrine (Réglement of 1910). Two army corps took part, each of five brigades and a cavalry division. The army corps had a new 30-battery artillery establishment. As a side dish, the manoeuvres offered the first large-scale opportunity for pilots to practise alongside ground troops, with 13 aeroplanes (plus four dirigibles) taking part. General Alexandre Percin (1846-1928). Very rare. [NOTE:] We offer also the accompanying volume by Percin: "L'Arbitrage aux manoeuvres de Picardie en 1910." Paris, Charles Lavauzelle, (1911). 005-5 .

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