Army Booklet (3 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1948). ND (c1948) 1st edition. Small format paperback (123 x 200mm). Pp72,xl. Not illustrated. Quite browned, chip to upper spine, slight marks to upper cover but intact and clean. A handbook published by the British Army of the Rhine to introduce would-be sportsmen-soldiers to field-sports in the British Zone of Germany. Figures are quoted for bags in the 1947-48 season, so presumably this book appeared in 1949. The contents cover coarse and game fishing as well as shooting game birds, wild boar and deer. There is also discussion of the contemporary situation in the British occupation zone. Vermin control was an especial problem: this was a responsibility of the German civilian authorities, who purposely allowed all species of vermin to increase as a lever against the occupation authorities. All civilian weapons had been confiscated in 1945, and the German authorities were trying to create a situation where sporting weapons would have to be reintroduced. As it turned out, civilians were not permitted weapons again until 1956. Chapters include: Game found in the British Zone, German attitude towards shooting, effect of the war on game and vermin, history of present organisation of game control; Small game shooting; Behaviour in the shooting field; Wild fowling; The wild boar; The red deer; The fallow deer; The roe deer; Odds and ends; Dogs; Fishing; Vermin. A rare and interesting publication. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1948). ND (c1948) 1st edition. Small format paperback (123 x 200mm). Pp72,xl. Slightly browned, repair to lower spine but intact and clean. A handbook published by the British Army of the Rhine to introduce would-be sportsmen-soldiers to field-sports in the British Zone of Germany. Figures are quoted for bags in the 1947-48 season, so presumably this book appeared in 1949. The contents cover coarse and game fishing as well as shooting game birds, wild boar and deer. There is also discussion of the contemporary situation in the British occupation zone. Vermin control was an especial problem: this was a responsibility of the German civilian authorities, who purposely allowed all species of vermin to increase as a lever against the occupation authorities. All civilian weapons had been confiscated in 1945, and the German authorities were trying to create a situation where sporting weapons could be reintroduced. As it turned out, civilians were not permitted weapons again until 1956. Chapters include: Game found in the British Zone, German attitude towards shooting, effect of the war on game and vermin, history of present organisation of game control; Small game shooting; Behaviour in the shooting field; Wild fowling; the wild boar; the red deer; The fallow deer; The roe deer; Odds and ends; Dogs; Fishing; Vermin. A rare and interesting publication. .…

Printed on both sides of a 15 x 135 cm strip of paper, concertina-folded to make 30pp., with each page on a 15 x 9 cm panel. A scarce survival, on aged and worn paper. No illustrations, but detailed entries in small print. One side carries 10pp of 'Cavalry and Artillery Recruits' Physical Training Tables', 4pp of 'Trained Solders' Physical Exercise Tables' and the title. The other side carries 14pp of 'Infantry Recruits/ Physical Training Tables' and one page of 'Abbreviations, etc.' No other copy traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC, although the Dutch National Military Museum does hold a copy of a 'Provisional' item with the same title, dated to April 1907.…