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In-16, publisher's full cloth with coloured titles to spine and front-board (binding slightly rubbed). 368 pp.; 12 ff., with 25 b/w-illustrations. Paper evenly browned, but all together a very well preserved copy. First edition, very rare: Worldcat, as of sept. 30th, 2023, lists only two library holdings worldwide (Berlin & Helsinki). This one-way dictionary of terms and phrases related to German artillery is one of a handful comparable dictionaries issued by the Soviets during WWII for the means of providing their troops in the field with appropriate knowledge of German technical terms to understand manuals and instructions for military equipment seized during combat. The rarity of this publication can easily be understood by the relatively small print run, here counting only for 6.000 copies (most Soviet publications state the number of the print run in the impressum) and by the fragile, poor quality paper used for printing. It goes without saying that only few copies could survive the course of an until then unseen bloody war, that at it's end and on the Soviet side alone already had cost millions of soldiers' lifes, who had been intended the main users of such a publication. - The dictionary is divided into three sections: [1st] an alphabetical glossary of technical and military terms with relation to artillery, from "Abbaken" over "Lichtspurgeschoß" to "Zylinderpulver" (330 pp.), [2nd] a glossary of abbreviations related to German artillery (38 pp.) and [3rd] an illustrated overview of German military equipment, i.e. weapons from small guns like the P-8 as well as larger mounted machine guns over howitzers and smoke mortars to 105mm artillery, their ammunition, incl. ignition systems, and supplementary systems such as aiming circles (12 ff.). First edition, very rare: Worldcat, as of sept. 30th, 2023, lists only two library holdings worldwide (Berlin & Helsinki). This one-way dictionary of terms and phrases related to German artillery is one of a handful comparable dictionaries issued by the Soviets during WWII for the means of providing their troops in the field with appropriate knowledge of German technical terms to understand manuals and instructions for military equipment seized during combat. The rarity of this publication can easily be understood by the relatively small print run, here counting only for 6.000 copies (most Soviet publications state the number of the print run in the impressum) and by the fragile, poor quality paper used for printing. It goes without saying that only few copies could survive the course of an until then unseen bloody war, that at it's end and on the Soviet side alone already had cost millions of soldiers' lifes, who had been intended the main users of such a publication. - The dictionary is divided into three sections: [1st] an alphabetical glossary of technical and military terms with relation to artillery, from "Abbaken" over "Lichtspurgeschoß" to "Zylinderpulver" (330 pp.), [2nd] a glossary of abbreviations related to German artillery (38 pp.) and [3rd] an illustrated overview of German military equipment, i.e. weapons from small guns like the P-8 as well as larger mounted machine guns over howitzers and smoke mortars to 105mm artillery, their ammunition, incl. ignition systems, and supplementary systems such as aiming circles (12 ff.). 500 g.