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  [Ukrayna, Rusya ve Türkiye. Makaleler Mecmuası / Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. A Discussion]   A pamphlet on cultural and demographic connections between Ukraine and Turkey, printed in Ottoman, in Istanbul, during World War I   8°. 71 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (light staining and foxing, small tears in the inner margin of the…

  An incredibly important survivor – a top-secret ‘General Headquarters Map’ made for the use of German General Liman von Sanders and his senior staff to oversee the ill-fated Ottoman-German ‘last stand’ in World War I’s Palestine Campaign at the ‘Battle of Megiddo’; composed of two joined exceedingly rare topographical maps of Central Palestine and Eastern Jordan, drafted and printed…

Rare – one of the most important of the maps made by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I, depicting Southern Palestine with the Ottoman-German Gaza-Beersheba defensive line, as well as the vicinity of the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), one the great British triumphs of the war in the Middle East, published in Cairo by the Survey of Egypt…

  An attractive Turkish pictographic map showing the various options that the Allies had for invading Nazi occupied north-western Europe, from an October 1943 edition of the leading Turkish daily ‘Cumhuryet’, published eight months before D-Day.

A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…

A deeply disturbing but historically important map depicting Łódź, Poland shortly after it was conquered by the Nazis in early World War II; all the of place and street names have been changed from Polish to German nomenclature and all signs of the city’s Polish population and Jewish community (which numbered over 30% of the city’s residents) has been erased;…

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded propaganda book in Croatian language was printed in Nazi Germany to promote the quality of its social life. The book also diminishes lifestyle in the Allied countries, where the people are allegedly unemployed and starving.