BOOK - MILITARIA - Charles-Lavauzelle editions 1927. 242 pages. A BOOK ON "SERVICE DE PLACE". Very interesting texts on regulations concerning organization, in peacetime and wartime, both within the army, in places of war and ports, and for relations and obligations with civilians in all aspects of life, honors to be paid, organization of services, convoys, maintenance of public order, military hospitals, military prisons, use of sentries' weapons, patrols, treasury, etc. etc. etc....

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