60650-17 - WORLD WAR II BOOK COLLECTION

WORLD WAR II BOOK COLLECTION

$240.00
60650-17

Excellent set of five United States Army-related books, all published during or pertaining to the Second World War. Lot includes Field Manual 21-100, Basic Field Manual: Soldier's Handbook (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941), a 253-page manual belonging to Capt. Jess Schumaker while stationed at Camp Forrest TN; A Manual for Courts-Martial, U.S. Army (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927), 341 pages, property of HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, 33rd Division Special Troops, Camp Forrest, TN; Historical and Pictorial Review: Medical Department: Camp Forrest, TN, October 1942, (Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishing Company, 1942); Pictorial History: Seventy-Fifth Field Artillery Brigade, 1941-42 (Atlanta: Army Press, 1942), a 141-page history of the 75th's enlisted men and officers in action; 33rd Division Pictorial History, Army of the United States, Camp Forrest 1941-1942 (Atlanta: Army Press, 1942). From the personal collection of World War II and Civil War historian Michael Miner. Miner's thirty-year collection was built through an extensive system of contacts he developed with artifact hunters and diggers in Europe and the Far East, and he maintained careful records of the items he amassed.