COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Mediterranean Front. 7. Sea of Conflict
Obj Height cm:
36
Obj Width cm:
57
Scale 1:
None shown
Note:
Includes text and color map, titled: 31. Geographic Problem. Point of projection, 10 (degrees) S, 20 (degrees) E. With text. Relief shown by shadings.
Full Title:
Mediterranean Front. 7. Sea of Conflict.
List No:
1104.019
Page No:
20-21
Series No:
19
Pub Date:
1944
Pub Title:
A War Atlas for Americans. Prepared with the Assistance of the Office of War Information. Published for Council on Books in Wartime by Simon and Schuster. New York. 1944.
Pub Note:
The editors note in the preface that, "So far as we know this is the first book of its kind, integrating as it does maps and text in an effort to explain to the everyday reader the past, present, and possible future of the war." Many of the maps shown in three dimensional relief. Bound with a paper dust jacket with "A War Atlas for Americans. A guide to the nature and course of the war, containing 84 new maps and 60,000 words of interpretative text. Prepared with the assistance of the Office of War Information. Foreword by Elmer Davis. Published for Council on Books in Wartime by Simon and Schuster."
Pub List No:
1104.000
Pub Maps:
84
Pub Height cm:
37
Pub Width cm:
29
Image No:
1104019
Event:
World War II
Publisher Location:
New York
Publisher:
Simon and Schuster
Type:
Atlas Map
Region:
Mediterranean Region
Publication Author:
U.S. Office of War Information
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
U.S. Office of War Information
Date:
1944
Mediterranean Front. 7. Sea of Conflict
