DU TCHAD AU RHIN - Three booklets With hundreds photos from the field of French army activity in the war against Nazi Germany. Published by DRAEGER FRERES Paris 1944-1945 - complete set of the three booklets - first edition. The covers design of the three booklets is the same. Printed on thick, fine paper.
Three booklets in an album edition that came out at the end of the war with rare photographs of war scenes from the French front in the months of the victory over Nazi Germany. Part I: The War in Tripoli and Tunisia. Part II: In the Italian Corps. Part III: Liberation of the Territory.
Some of the photographs appear in quality photomontage work. In the three booklet, dozens of photographs taken by the French media units in the midst of the war, showing French soldiers alongside residents of North African countries who joined them in the war against the German-Italian Axis armies starting in January 1941. The booklet also reviews the warfare in Rommel's army and the heavy losses suffered by the German army against the combined power of France and Great Britain, training of the French army in enemy territory for the last stages of the war, German prisoners surrendering, French soldiers returning home and waving the victory flag. Each photograph is briefly described in a heroic manner that glorifies the impressive prowess of the French military. At the end of the booklets there is a report about the rarity of the photographic negatives with which the booklets were produced.
Three parts in three booklets. Complete set. general condition very good .
