Generalstab des Heeres [German General Staff]: Nordost-Frankreich Stadtdurchfahrtplane [Town plans of North East France] , Berlin: [Department for War Maps and Surveying], 1939.

8 inches x 6 inches (21 cms x 15 cms). 177 town plans of North East France, mainly printed both sides. A large folding frontispiece provides a key map of all the various towns. Most town plans are printed either one to a page or two to a page; some are large double-page fold-out plans. In nice condition, as issued by the Wehrmacht in 1939, virtually untouched internally, the outer soft-cloth covers a touch creased. Complete with the key map and 177 town plans although possibly lacking an ancillary map. A nice copy of the first 1939 edition of the German army's atlas of town plans in North East France, published in Berlin by the German Department for War Maps and Surveying (Abteilung fur Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen) within the German General Staff (Generalstab des Heeres). These town plans were produced "For Official Use Only!" (Nur fur den Dienstgebrauch!) as part of the German preparatory work for their forthcoming war plans for Europe. This collection of German wartime town plans, most of which have never been republished, have immense historical significance as surviving remnants of World War Two German Wehrmacht material. The maps also have particular resonance for troops and units involved in fighting between the British, American, Canadian and Allied forces in 1944 and 1945 covering as it does many of the towns through which battles were fought between the Allies and the retreating German forces. Anyone in the land forces in North East France in 1944/1945 will have had to fight his way through the actual streets shown in many of these towns. (Price includes postage UK) (Book ref. as-1914)  £85.00

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