[BRITISH ARMY INTELLIGENCE.] The Palestine Problem. [No place, but probably Jerusalem]: General Headquarters Press, May 1946.

Very rare British Army briefing document on the political situation in the Mandate.

Folio (330 x 205 mm.) [33]ff. 1 full-page map, 4 maps across 2 folding plates, 3 coloured, 1 coloured map loosely inserted. (Last 3 leaves and lower cover detached, some light spotting.) Original printed wrappers (lightly stained).

Provenance:
Capt. R.B. Gardiner (ink inscription to upper cover).

The interim edition of this British government briefing on Palestine with three additional chapters, first published in October 1945. An important account of the political situation in post-WWII Palestine, with chapters on subjects including the Mandate, the Arab rebellion 1936-1939, the Jewish community in Palestine, as well as three chapters new to this edition on Palestine and World Zionism, Palestine and the Arab League, and Illegal Jewish Armed Organisations. Includes a series of three maps of Palestine showing Plans A, B, & C for the division of territories between Jewish and Arab states. VERY RARE: NO COPIES CAN BE TRACED ON WORLDCAT.
330 x 205 x 5 mm.

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