command army council eric b b (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Original staple-bound 3-hole punched wraps, 14x21cm. Printed under HMSO authority by Kelliher, Hudson and Kearns. iv, 34pp including 1 plan. Wraps about very good, spotted, with small area of scuffing to the top front edge, and staples rusted. Interiors very good. This is one in a series of self-contained handbooks (others covered counter-intelligence and military security, intelligence in the field etc). It is signed in the print by the War Office's Permanent Under Secretary of State Eric B.B. Speed on 26 November 1946, and was distributed to All Arms Scale B(1), and Officer Cadet Training Units (OCTUs) Scale III. It details the operation of two branches of Prisoner of War (PW) Intelligence: one to obtain information from enemy PWs and deserters (PW Intelligence (Enemy)); the other to deny information to the enemy from British PWs, escapers and evaders, and recover captured or isolated British or Allied personnel (PW Intelligence (British)). Its need was driven by experiences in WW2. The case of a Canadian PW camp for example found that attempts to convert the Germans to democracy were countered by Nazi efforts to maintain loyalty by sending care packages to their PWs, pressure from "hard-core" PWs connected to Nazi leaders, and prior "intense education", and special instructions on how to act in case of capture (Myers 2013: 239, citing this Manual). Therefore PW Intelligence (Enemy) covered here at much greater length includes principles and organisation of interrogation (distinguishing field from base, major requirements, etc); treatment of prisoners, handling (distinguishing various types of unwounded, wounded, special prisoners, and search of the dead); and evacuation (including circumstances for shoot to kill); variations in procedure from Unit to Army; the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre; techniques for interrogating enemy prisoners / civilians / civilian refugees; relations with General Support Intelligence (GS(I) responsible for gathering, analysing and disseminating military intelligence); and examination and disposal of documents / captured material. PW Intelligence (British) covers tasks; troop training (in security, escape and evasion); operations by GHQ; and intelligence (on numbers, condition etc of escapers and evaders). The appendix includes a plan of an idealised divisional or corps "cage". It includes a marshalling area for identifying, sorting and counting, separate areas for prisoners interrogated / selected / not selected for interrogation, interrogation rooms or tents screened from view (further from the cage if hessian screens are not available), and administrative area. Sufficient pens are required to separate officers from NCOs and men, and "clean" (ie, available for evacuation) from "dirty" (not available for evacuation). Other appendices include specimen headings for Corps or Army Level Interrogation Reports (pretty much a terms of reference), and extracts from the Geneva Convention (1929) with a list of its signatories. Extremely rare - Worldcat highlights the Canadian connection, recording a single copy at the Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum (OCLC 1232297714), and a Canadian reprint dated November 1946 at the Library and Archives Canada (OCLC 1007487170). Not recorded on Library Hub. (Ref. Adrian Myers (2013), "The Archaeology of Reform at a German Prisoner of War Camp in a Canadian National Park during the Second World War").