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LOT 92:
Exposing the Sabotage of the Jewish Underground Against the British - Photographs and Drawings - 1946
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Exposing the Sabotage of the Jewish Underground Against the British - Photographs and Drawings - 1946
Palestine Pamphlet, Terrorist Methods with Mines and Booby Traps, Headquarters, Chief Engineer, Palestine & Transjordan - a rare booklet published by the Chief Engineer of the British Army Headquarters exposing the methods of operation of the Jewish underground. Classified as "restricted". December 1946. Rare.
In the booklet, a list of the types of mines and explosives used by the Jewish undergrounds in Eretz Israel in the 1940s - The Irgun and the Lehi, drawings of the various mines and their methods of operation, photographs of sabotage sites damaged by the Jewish undergrounds. Among other things, a photograph of the King David Hotel appears after it was blown up by the Irgun in July 1946, the explosion of the railway in Carmel, the assassination of a British car, the explosion near the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem, and more.
38 pages + [1], VI Photographic tablets. Few stains on cover. Very good condition. Former library copy.
