Generalstab des Heeres [German General Staff]: Militargeographische Angaben uber England: Bildheft England Insgesamt. [Photographs : Across England] , Berlin: [Department for War Maps and Surveying], 1940.

8.5 inches x 6 inches (21 cms x 15 cms). 174 black and white half-tone photographs, printed both sides, of places throughout England and Wales as listed in the three pages of index shown below. In near-immaculate condition internally, as issued in original green wrappers with a minor nick at the foot of the spine. This work was prepared in 1940 and issued in Berlin the same year as part of Militargeographische Angaben uber England (effectively translating as Military/geographical Report on England) by Abteilung fur Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (Department for War Maps and Surveying), and was intended Nur fur den Dienstgebrauch! (For official use only) by the Generalstab des Heeres (German General Staff). Following the Battle of Britain in 1940, the Germans postponed their plans for Unternehmen Seelowe (Operation Sealion), the invasion of Britain by large-scale troop landings along the South Coast. However, whilst abandoning their immediate plans to invade, the German High Command continued to gather together detailed information to prepare the ground for any future invasion or occupation of Britain. In short, this book of photographs, many being aerial photographs, is one of a number of confidential documents prepared at the beginning of the Second World War for the use of high ranking military planners, officers and their staff within the top echelons of the German war machine in Berlin. (Price includes postage UK) (Book ref. as-1916)  £78.00

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