Prelude to Victory

Jonathan Cape, London, 1939. First edition. With introduction by Winston Churchill. Red cloth has some wear and a faded spine. Contents tight with previous owner name inside. Scattered foxing throughout, particularly to the prelims. 640pp with folding maps in good order. No DW.
The author devotes this volume to the description and analysis of the great offensive of 1917 which was planned by General Nivelle, and which ranks with the opening Battle of the Frontiers' as the most serious disaster sustained by the French in the Great War.