Honour Bound; The Chauchat Machine Rifle
Coboug, Canada: Collector Grade Publications, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [xiv] xvii [xviii] 209 [210] : 249 illustrations : produced and edited by R Blake Stevens : preface by Louis Chauchat (grandson of Colonel Chauchat) : bibliography : blue boards : gilt to spine : dust jacket illustrated with 'authentic period colour photograph using the original Lumière Autochrome process', taken on June 12, 1917 at Bois d'Hirtzbach, near Altkirch.
Light foxing top and bottom edges of text block but clean throughout; foxing to verso of jacket. Near fine / very good. Item #2450
Honour Bound is the in-depth history of CSRG (Chauchat) Machine Rifle, as told through the eyes of the French Infantry (and later, the AEF) during the Great War on the Western Front. Much of the interesting Archival material in this book was only recently declassified, and has never been published before. (From introduction).
Price: $350.00