VOCABULARY OF GERMAN MILITARY TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS (REVISED TO 1939) – Published by General Staff, His Majesty’s Stationery Office London, 1939. Copy with internal note on the title page: “Important words and expressions are marked in red”, and indeed throughout the manual (almost every page), important expressions are marked in red. Official copy. On top of the cover is written in handwriting – “MILITARISCHE AUSDRUCKE” – “Military Printing” handwritten .
A list of hundreds of useful expressions and words in the German military. Intended for Allied armies to get to know the enemy as German forces increased and World War II broke out. At the end are lists of terms used by Germans on military maps and field sketches, and abbreviations used in telephone messages and wireless messages.
238 p. 18 cm. Good – very good condition.
