War and Navy Department Pocket Guide to Egypt 1943 Review

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War and Navy Department Pocket Guide to Egypt 1943 ReviewDuring World War II the War and Navy Departments published an extensive series of pamphlets for use individually by military personnel on a wide variety of subjects. One subset of pamphlets are basically travel guides with a military/World War II twist.
Here is a list of the countries (or areas) that I have confirmed as of this moment: Great Britain, France, Italy, North Africa, West Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, Hawaii, India, China, Netherlands East Indies, New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Panama, Burma, Northern Ireland, Syria, Germany, Iran, New Caledonia, and Egypt. I am sure that there are more and I am very interested in just learning about them (not to mention reading and obtaining a copy for myself).
Initially (1942) the pamphlets were titles "A Short Guide to...." Later the names were changed to "A Pocket Guide to...." To further complicate the series, sometimes the article adjective was used and sometimes it was not. In at least one case, the Short Guide version was used on the cover, but Pocket Guide was used on the title page.
From this introduction, it might seem that the guides were poorly done. In fact they were quite well done from a prose, art, typography, and manufacturing (two colors) point of view. The text is very interesting. Quite obviously the booklets were intended for use by military personnel travelling to the respective country or area.
The booklets therefore include appropriate geographical, cultural, monetary information, a local language guide and other information that would be of use to them and would be useful to tourists today. Additionally, the booklets include political and military information. This information is of particular interest because it is from a decidedly United States 1942-1944 point of view. That is what makes them of particular interest to me.
The guides vary in length from 48 to about 80 pages. One notable feature is the quality of the art used to illustrate the pamphlets. It is uniformly good. The center spread is a map of the country or area. The pamphlets themselves are undated but most have a date and job number from the Government Printing Office on the last page. Both the date and number are useful in studying the pamphlets.
I enjoy reading all of the pamphlets and am working on finding all of them or at least developing a list of all of them.
The Pocket Guide To Egypt is about average with respect to content. The format of the booklet is different from any of the other booklets that I have seen. Specifically, the topics are listed alphabetically A-Z. The description of the political intiugue in the area is quite good. It is shorter than many of the pamphlets at 60 pages.
Pocket guides were published for military personnel long after World War II. In fact they may still be published, but my own interest ends with the World War II period so for the time being I do not have much information about the later issues.
Finally, some local unofficial guides were published for areas that did not rate the real deal.War and Navy Department Pocket Guide to Egypt 1943 Overview

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