"HaChayil" – The Newspaper of the Jewish Brigade in Europe – Last 103 Issues

"HaChayil" – The Newspaper of the Jewish Brigade in Europe – Last 103 Issues
"HaChayil" ]The Corps[, "daily newspaper for Hebrew soldiers" (Hebrew). The last 103 issues (numbered 551-653); with a celebratory edition of issue no. 1 in honor of the disbandment of the Brigade and the end of the newspaper. "Western Europe" [presumably Brussels], February-June 1946.
The issues contain an important documentation of the soldiers' life in Europe, their encounters with She'erit Hapletah and the changes that occurred in Palestine and the world after the war (reports from commissions of the UN, news on the subject of settlement and Aliyah, testimonies and updates on the state of the DP camps, soldiers' letters, poems and literary passages, and more). Many of the issues contain pictures from Palestine and the rest of the world, illustrations, caricatures and maps.
Bound in two volumes, with printed labels featuring the newspaper's logo (the numbers of the issues are typewritten on the labels).
Enclosed: "LaChayal" [for the soldier], issue no. 1. A renewed edition of the first issue of the newspaper, which was distributed as a gift to the readers on the day the last issue was published. Brussels, June 21, 1946 (the original issue was printed in Italy on March 5, 1944; the new details of printing appear on an orange strip of paper).
103 issues in two volumes (the number of pages varies between the issues) and [1] souvenir issue, renewed edition. approx. 34 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and minor blemishes (mainly to margins). Open tears to corners of some leaves. Several detached and partly detached leaves. One of the volumes lacks spine and back board.