Beschreibung:

Nachrichten für die Truppe, nos. 9-353, a near complete run of 311 issues bound as one, 25 April 1944 to 4 April 1945, each paper with banner title and 5-column text, diagrams and reproduction photographs throughout, each issue a single leaf and then two leaves from issue no. 56, bound before a part-folding 'Extrablatt' issue of the same publication, 5 May 1945, plus 11 single-sheet issues of Tous les Fronts, nos. 9, 11-13, 16, 17, 19-21, 23 & 26, 7 July - 18 August 1944, and L'Amerique en Guerre, no. 110, 6 July 1944, some mostly marginal light browning and occasional tears without loss, near-contemporary plain cloth with small gilt ownership monogram 'R.A.G.' to upper cover and 'Nachrichten' to spine, folio (32 x 23 cm) (Qty: 1) This is a printer's bound file copy of 'News for the Troops', a daily Allied propaganda newspaper produced by the Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. It was an Anglo-American venture and the inspiration of Sefton Delmer who superintended the editorial content, wrote much of the material and inspired the staff. After trials and experiments begun in March 1944 the first edition appeared on 25 April 1944 with issue 9, as here, there deliberately being no issues numbered 1-8. It ended with no. 381 on 5 May 1945 (and the 'Extrablatt', announcing the German surrender, included in this run). The paper brought updated news of the war to the German troops, and for added interest and appeal it also featured sports results and pin ups. It was printed at the Luton News (Home Counties Group) then packed in large containers and dropped by Allied bombers on or behind the German Western Front. Starting with 200,000 copies a day, the print run was increased and by D-Day, 6 June 1944, the number of copies being dropped was one million a day. In total 159,898,973 copies of the newspaper were produced. Comprising 312 of the 374 issues this is an important and very rare, near-complete collection of the original issues of this ephemeral propaganda publication, copies of which are more often found individually or in very small numbers. The issues missing from the collection offered here are nos. 11, 16, 18, 25, 27, 28, 30-33, 39, 46, 49, 60, 78, 88, 89, 91, 105, 119, 128, 181, 192, 249, 250, 252-254, 276, 284, 332, 333, 348, 349, 354-381. It was compiled by Richard Arthur Gibbs, managing director of County Newspapers (later Home Counties Newspapers) where these were printed and is now offered for sale by the family.