JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post

I have perhaps four or five pamphlets on gas attacks presented int eh manner of the one I’m displaying today–someone, somewhere did a good and thorough job of cataloging these instructions for a general population on what to do in the event of a poison gas attack.  There are also 50 or so items that had once been in the library of the OSS that are similar in presentation/preservation to the gas attack pamphlets, though those all have at least two indications (a stamp and hand written cataloging) stating their point of origin, and the one below does not.  The pamphlet is stapled into a manila folder,and opposite it is a worksheet with cataloging details and a fairly extensive abstract of the pamphlet (by hand) in English.  Very curious, and interesting.  

The pamphlet:  Notice sur les Mesures a Appliquee en cas de Surprise par les Gaz, printed in France in January 1939 by the Ministere de la Defense National.  There is still eight more months of peace to be waged and lost, Hitler already on the move in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and of course Japan already fighting their all-out war in China already for seven years. 

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