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Booklet 'The Clennon King story', critical of civil rights campaigner Clennon King. 1 item

War Office pamphlet, The defence of Calais by Eric Linklater (1941). 40 pp

The first to be freed: the record of British military administration in Eritrea and Somalia, 1941-1943, booklet on the British administration in the first territories in Eritrea and Somalia to be liberated from Italian control, with black and white photographs of Eritrean and Somali scenes (HMSO, London). 76 pp, one loose item, 1 item

The Functions of an International Air Police (The New Commonwealth, London, 1937). 1 booklet

The Functions of an International Equity Tribunal, outline proposal for an international court of justice to settle disputes between nations (The New Commonwealth, London, 1936). 1 booklet

The Home Guard of Britain, booklet on the organisation, work and training of the Home Guard. Front cover features a member of Home Guard showing a gun to his son. 72 pp, 1 item

Copy text on child abduction by parents, with a covering letter, and a copy of ‘The Irish Prisoner’, published by the Prisoners Aid Committee, London (30pp).

Booklet entitled, 'The Japanese Account of their Operations in Burma, Dec 1941-Aug 1945', issued by Headquarters 12 Army, being a copy of three documents submitted by Headquarters Japanese Burma Area Army after the Japanese surrender, and relating to plans and operations of the Japanese forces in Burma, including six maps showing the disposition of Japanese forces in Burma from the formation of South East Asia Command to the capitualtion of Japan, Nov 1943-Aug 1945. 1 book.

The King and the Lady, three kings in one year. Why did Edward VIII abdicate? Facts which were not told (published by Cavalcade, The British News-Magazine, London, [1937]). 1 booklet

The men behind the job, palm-sized booklet on the importance of the hard work of civilian labourers in assisting the war effort, with captioned black and white photographs. 16 pp, 1 item

The menace of aerial gas bombardment by Lt Col Norman G Thwaites (The New Commonwealth, a society for the promotion of international law and order, London, Dec 1934). 1 booklet

The new Income Tax quiz for wage earners, booklet with foreword by Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, including the changes introduced in the 1942 Budget, issued for the Board of Inland Revenue (HMSO, London). 24 pp, 1 item

The Polish-Soviet Campaign of 1920 by Gen Marian Kukiel (Oliver and Boyd Ltd, Edinburgh and London, on behalf of the Scottish-Polish Society, probably 1928), on Polish defeat of the Red Army advancing on Warsaw. 1 booklet

The power behind their wings: an account of the part played by Sir Henry Royce and the Rolls-Royce engineers in the development of the in-line liquid-cooled Aero-Engine in Great Britain, booklet on the history of the engine which powered British aircraft during the Battle of Britain, (London). 72 pp, 1 item

The Royal Marines: the Admiralty account of their achievement 1939-1943, booklet on the Royal Marines' achievements in the Faeroe Islands, Iceland and Norway, prepared for the Admiralty by the Ministry of Information, (HMSO, London). 84 pp, 1 item

Booklet entitled The scandal of the British tanks. A demand for an enquiry, by Ivor Halstead, containing criticism of the performance in the field of the British Army's tanks and of those responsible for tank development, and an account of the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and calling for an enquiry into the full facts about British tank production, 1939-1943, including an appendix containing quotations from Hansard, Jul 1942-Nov 1943, (the Fanfare Press, London, 1943). 3 copies

The services handbook, Ministry of Information booklet with factual and statistical information on the Royal Navy, Army, RAF and Combined Operations Command (HMSO, London). 108 pp, 1 item

The Strategic Importance of Czechoslovakia for Western Europe by Col Emanuel Moravec, professor of the Military College, Prague, Czechoslovak Sources and Documents No 13 ("Orbis" Printing and Publishing Co, Prague, 1936). 1 booklet

Souvenir booklet 'The third jungle book', the magazine of 3 Commando Bde and map of the Myebon peninsular, Burma. 2 items

The third Molotov notes on German atrocities: The third note sent by V M Molotov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, to all governments with which the USSR has diplomatic relations, booklet issued on behalf of the Embassy of the USSR in London, on war crimes allegedly committed by German forces in the USSR (HMSO, London). 26 pp, 1 item.