The Note-Book of An Intelligence Officer

New York: Century Co, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's original ribbed bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. [xii]; 346pp. Light rubbing and edgewear, minor bumping to spine ends, gilt bright, cloth clean, a slight spine lean; internally clean, illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some folding. A very good, bright copy indeed.

Eric Fisher Wood Sr. was an American in Paris at the outbreak of WW1, volunteered as a US attaché, served as an Ambulance Driver, returned to the US to take part in an initiative to form a foundation of military preparedness during WW1, returned to Europe and joined the British as a Major, was wounded at Arras, and gassed at Meuse. Clearly a man for whom military service had been invented, he ended up as a Lieutenant Colonel, after having served as Chief of Staff for the 88th Infantry Division, among a host of other more clandestine responsibilities.
Upon his return to the US in 1919 he was enlisted by General Pershing and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as a founding committee member and administrator of what would eventually be called The American Legion, the first properly funded and administered US military veteran's association.