EDMONDS, James Edward, & Graeme Charnley Wynne.

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Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1915. First edition, inscribed by Edmonds on the half-title, "Muriel Birkbeck from J. E. Edmonds. Xmas 1927." Before the war, Edmonds worked in military intelligence as head of MO5, the precursor to MI5. He was appointed GSOI of the 4th division in 1909 and in this capacity was an eyewitness to the retreat from Mons in 1914. For the rest of the war he was stationed at general headquarters. "In 1919 Edmonds retired with the honorary rank of brigadier-general and was appointed director of the historical section, military branch, committee of imperial defence. His task was to direct; all narratives were to be written by historians; but finding the first choice unsatisfactory, Edmonds himself took over the main field, the western front, and sowed and reaped it to the end" (ODNB). His co-author for this volume served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.The Official History of the Great War series was finally completed in 2010, by which point it had expanded to 109 volumes.

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