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SCHELLENDORFF (The late Gen. Bronsart von)
The Duties of the General Staff.
Revised by Major Bronsart von Schellendorff (Great General Staff), 4th Ed., x+567pp. HMSO.
1907
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The edition of the official guide to the Generalstab current at the outbreak of WW1, first issued in English in 1875 & deemed important enough to be kept in print for the instruction of officers of the Army. 625 copies of this edition were printed & it was out-of-print by 1914. The author headed the operations & movement section of Moltke's Field General Staff during the Franco-Prussian War & was war minister between 1883 & 1889. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, sp. tanned o/w VG, quite a nice copy & scarce, with contemp. ink ownership inscrip. of Harold Francis Saphir Amery, who was commissioned in the Black Watch in 1897, was seconded to the Egyptian Army, serving in the Intelligence Department in Cairo & as Assistant Director of Intelligence, 1907-11. He passed the Staff College & then rejoined his regiment, was severely wounded at 1st Ypres which resulted in his death in London in 1915.
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