Warsaw 1939, Military Institute of Science and Education. 23x31.5 cm, pp. 1176, numerous photographs in the text, hardback binding, preserved soft covers of individual issues. Good condition (numbers 2-3, 5 and 22-23 trimmed by the bookbinder, no. 4 and 30 missing, single losses and undercovers - no damage to the text, traces of dampstaining on the edges of several pages).
Numbers 1-35 (without 4 and 30) from 1939 - from January 1 to August 27, i.e. the last issue published before the outbreak of World War II.
The covers were designed by Adam Kossowski, Zygmunt Sowa-Sowinski, Boguslaw Szczerbinski, J. Niezabitowska and L. Biernacka, Artur Horowicz.
Contents include: Memories of the Greater Poland Uprising campaign (F. Wojciechowski). The crisis of the world war in 1918 (W. Lipinski). Dawidgródek - Polesie Biskupin (R. Nuszkiewicz). From King-te-tchin to Korc: porcelain (Cz. Mączewski). Józef Piłsudski's Legion Bridge in Płock. Uniform - a symbol of faithful service. A pigeon in the service of war (Cz. Bem). Freemasonry is not a myth. Tourist investments in Zakopane. Mr. President of the Republic Prof. Ignacy Moscicki as a hunter. Chief of State and Commander-in-Chief Jozef Pilsudski in Volhynia in January 1920. The participation of sailors in the struggle for independence. The navy of the reborn Republic. Marine artillery. From the life of the Border Protection Corps. Ski march along the route of the Second Brigade of the Polish Legions. The Central Industrial District. Mieczyslaw Karlowicz. "Soldier's Homes" and their educational character. IV ski march Zulow-Vilnius. Colonel Leopold Lis-Kula. Poland and Gdansk. Non-commissioned officers decorated with the Cross of Merit as of March 19, 1939. Fishing sports on the seas of the South (F. A. Ossendowski). Protection of railroads. Air shows in Warsaw. Commander-in-chief of the Lithuanian army Gen. Stanislaw Rasztikis. Polish Pomerania. Battle of Ossow (W. Karbowski). Duels in old Poland. Our rights to the Baltic Sea. Polish Army on postcard and envelope. ORP "Pomorzanin. "