Lucas, Lieutenant-Colonel (Pascal-Marie-Henri).
L'évolution des idées tactiques en France et en Allemagne pendant la guerre de 1914-1918.
Paris, Berger Levrault, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Crown quarto. Pp. ix, 323. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary cloth and marbled boards, part from original printed wrapper laid-down, cloth French corners, old shelf ticket to spine, old military institutional stamp to title and number to half-title. In fine condition. Paper evenly age toned else an excellent copy, practically unused. ~ FIRST EDITION. Lucas' work was exceptionally successful. In 1925 (some bibliographies say 1923) it was translated into English as "The evolution of tactical ideas in France and Germany during the war of 1914-1918" and apparently also published by Berger-Levrault, a rather uncommon event. In French it went through several editions, with the 2nd edition appearing directly the next year (1924); the 3rd in 1925, and the 4th edition, apparently the last, in 1932. Copies of the present FIRST EDITION are extremely rare as apparently were printed in a small run. OCLC does not locate a single institutional holding worldwide of this edition. H-4 IN .
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