6 British escape and evasion maps.

Lithograph, on fabric, all but 1 in colour (folds, some edges frayed).

Curious set of maps on fabric from MI9's escape and evasion mapping programme, intended to aid British soldiers, specifically pilots, to find their way to safety if they got caught behind enemy lines. 1. Sheet C & D. C. 40,5 x 45 cm. Map of Northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands (recto) and France (verso). - 2. Sheet H2 & D. C. 34 x 55 cm. Map of France on scale 1:3,000,000 (recto) and a part of the Iberian peninsula and Southern France on scale 1:2,000,000 (verso). - 3. Sheet J3 & J4. C. 37 x 47 cm. Map of Northern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia (recto) and Northern Italy (verso). - 4. Sheet S2 & S3. C. 51 x 60 cm. Map of Greece, Turkey and the Balkans (recto) and Italy, Greece and the Balkans (verso). With a table to convert kilometres into English miles. - 5. Sheet 9U. C. 35,5 x 45 cm. Map of Central Europe (recto only). Map n. 7330 by the Air Ministry, showing mainly Germany and its borders in 1939 and 1941. In bl/w. - 6-7. Sheet 43 C & D. C. 70 x 70 cm (1: good condition; 2: 1 corner missing, sl. soiled). Map of Belgium, the Netherlands, Northern France and Germany (recto) and Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland (verso).
Ref. Bond, Barbara A. (2014), "MI9's escape and evasion mapping programme 1939-1945".