1932 Aldershot, Gale & Polden 234pp + map
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged.
Original editorial red cloth, black lettering on front board and spine, pocket for the map on rear pastedown, minimal signs of wear, discreet stamps on pastedowns, preliminary page and rear endpaper, pastedown and endpaper with light traces of dust and foxing otherwise in VG+ conditions. It includes in the back pocket a large coloured Map of the Aldershot Command, approx. dimensions 73cm x 94cm, in mint conditions.
Scarce military publication, the full text on Title being:
“Tactical Schemes from Platoons to Brigades with Solutions and Notes – Including Questions and Answers suitable for entrance to the Army, for promotion on topography, map reading, field engineering and field administration also solutions to schemes set for the Staff College also illustrations from history of the principles of war, and also full notes on the effect of mechanization on attack, defence, mountain warfare, desert warfare, and on chemical warfare, and on the effect of the machine gun company on the tactical handling of a battalion – together with 1” Aldershot modified gridded map on which all the schemes and problems are set”.
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military publications, Army manuals, Aldershot, Hampshire, topography, map reading, field engineering, tactical schemes
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