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Condition: New. 2020 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1946). Sxviii+217 pages with 49 photographs and 14 multi page colour maps & 31 full page colour maps Published Price £38 Prepared in 1946, this volume was designed for succeeding generations of Royal Engineers who would visit the battlefields of Europe after the war. Its purpose was to demonstrate the problems faced by the Royal Engineers in the major campaigns of the Second World War and the problems they used to solve them. The operations chosen for inclusion in this tour were done so because they were regarded as typical examples of engineering tasks.ÂWhat was Geographical Section, General Staff (GSGS)?Geographical Section, General Staff (GSGS, also known as MI 4) operated under the Director of Military Operations and Intelligence. Its role was to supply maps to the forces, collect data on foreign survey networks, provide training, and prepare survey data for Expeditionary Force mobilisation.GSGS was organised into small sections, each of which specialised in maps of a particular region. The War Office Map Library, which was also part of MI 4, acquired maps and cartographic intelligence data.Senior staff members were usually Royal Engineer officers with surveying qualifications, although there were a few Royal Artillery or infantry officers. The rest of the staff were civil technical assistants and clerks, together with some Royal Engineer other ranks.

Condition: New. 2020 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1946). Volume one has xviii+217 pages with 49 photographs and 14 multi page colour maps Volume two has x+ 83 pages with 31 full page colour maps (Bound in one volume)Published Price £45 One of the best sources of primary material when researching any military campaign are the documents that were made at the time, and this Royal Engineers account of the campaign in Europe 1944-1945 that covers operations from after the Seine crossing to the Rhine crossing by 30 Corps in March 1945 is one such impressive source.ÂThese books give an account of operations in France and Flanders 1940, and then go on to look at operations in Belgium and the advance of 30 Corps to the Nederrijn, 1 Airborne Division at Arnhem, airfield construction in the Eindhoven area, the battle of the Rhineland between the Maas and the Rhine in February 1945, and concludes with details of the Rhine crossing.ÂThe two-book set is full of details and includes all the original maps reproduced in colour. These volumes are fundamental to an understanding of the overall picture of these operations, and the maps add even more to that picture.

Condition: New. 2020 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1946). Hardback Volume one has xviii+217 pages with 49 photographs and 14 multi page colour maps Volume two has x+ 83 pages with 31 full page colour maps (Bound in one volume) One of the best sources of primary material when researching any military campaign are the documents that were made at the time, and this Royal Engineers account of the campaign in Europe 1944-1945 that covers operations from after the Seine crossing to the Rhine crossing by 30 Corps in March 1945 is one such impressive source.ÂThese books give an account of operations in France and Flanders 1940, and then go on to look at operations in Belgium and the advance of 30 Corps to the Nederrijn, 1 Airborne Division at Arnhem, airfield construction in the Eindhoven area, the battle of the Rhineland between the Maas and the Rhine in February 1945, and concludes with details of the Rhine crossing.ÂThe two-book set is full of details and includes all the original maps reproduced in colour. These volumes are fundamental to an understanding of the overall picture of these operations, and the maps add even more to that picture.