1917 Cortina French-English Military Manual

Picard, Jean A. – Cortina French-English Military Manual

Picard, Jean A. Cortina French-English Military Manual. New York: The Cortina Academy of Languages, 1917. Second edition. 16 × 11 cm, 274 pp. + extensive appendices. Original flexible burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped title to front board. Very good condition.A compact bilingual military handbook published for American servicemen during the First World War, with a foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood. Designed to provide practical French-English vocabulary for military life and service, including terminology for ranks, weapons, artillery, cavalry, equipment, commands, medical matters, and everyday communication. The appendices are particularly extensive, with numerous diagrams and illustrations of uniforms, insignia, flags, harness and equipment, together with comparative measurements and a glossary of French soldiers' slang ("Quelques mots d'argot Poilu"). This is the 1917 second edition. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with attractive color plates of French and American military flags and uniforms, and with the color map "Le Front Français" in front.