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A fascinating and perhaps unparalleled archive that provides highly detailed and authentic insights into Guerilla Warfare Training, which played a vital role in the ultimate Allied victory in the Southwest Pacific Theatre of World War II, a topic often mentioned by historians, but seldom revealed as here; the archive is comprised of 23 elements, mostly lesson plans for specialist courses…

  A very rare, large-format atlas of the sea floor off the western and northwestern coasts of Africa, from Morocco down to Sierra Leone, made by the German Navy during the height of World War II expressly for the use of U-Boats; with 24 plates of highly sophisticated and brightly coloured sea charts predicated upon novel, recent intelligence, it was…

  An illustrated book, printed in Belgrade, gives a report on Serbian soldiers in Africa during WWI.

  A rare advanced aeronautical chart of Central Iraq, including Baghdad, made during the final days of World War II, depicting a troubled, but vital air corridor connecting the Mediterranean with the Persian Gulf and India; predicated upon the latest information supplied by Royal Air Force, published by the War Office in London.

  A fascinating and unique example of a military topographical map of Northwestern Italy, featuring original and extensive manuscript additions regarding the Italian Fascist High Command’s defensive plan made in response to the Allied invasion of the South of France in August-September 1944.  

  The two original drawings are first-hand accounts of the construction of roads and canals by Austro-Hungary, during its occupation of Montenegro in WWI. The drawings were probably made for a publication.

  A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society   Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).  

  A spectacular artefact of the Gallipoli Campaign, being an extremely rare ultra large map of the Cape Hellas-Krithia battle sector issued by T.E. Lawrence’s (later ‘Lawrence of Arabia’) map department at the Intelligence Office in Cairo, predicated upon a recently “captured” Ottoman map that was the first proper survey of this critical military zone; greatly augmented by extensive and…

A well executed set of 11 drawings, shows high-ranking officers of the Austrian army during WWI.

  A special supplement to the ‘Times’ of London featuring the ‘Epitaph’ of WWI’s Gallipoli Campaign, being a gripping and detailed account of one of the most brutal military altercations in world history and one of the greatest ever defeats for the British Empire, written by Sir Ian Hamilton, the supreme commander of the Allied operation, just as it was…