The Ministry of Economic Warfare: A Collection of Handbooks for Enemy & Occupied Countries Binding_publisher's boards 5 x 127 cm

5 x 127 cm

Italy zone handbook 6

This map of Tasmania was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas'

from the ‘Nuovo atlante geographico universale’

Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan) and the original Mercator Atlas (published in parts between 1585 and 1595) was an enormous advance in scientific terms: like Abraham Ortelius

The Ministry of Economic Warfare: A Collection of Handbooks for Enemy & Occupied Countries Binding_publisher's boards 5 x 127 cmThis is a collection of 61 intelligence handbooks, 1943 1945, covering enemy and occupied countries and compiled by the Foreign Office and Ministry for Economic Warfare. The MoEW was formed in September 1939 and worked closely with the FO, which took over its remaining functions at the end of the war. Members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) supplied the FO with some of the detailed historical and political background