Khartoum.
London. E. Stanford. July, 1940. Stock ID #219226 A wartime map of Khartoum - at the time the capital of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and a critical base of operations for Allied forces amidst the East African campaign. When referring to this item please quote stockid 219226.
Map of Khartoum at 1:250,000 scale. Somewhat browned in one place, some wear to folds, overall a good copy.
In October 1940, the city served as the site of a conference between Haile Selassie, Anthony Eden, Jan Smuts, Archibald Wavell, William Platt, and Alan Cunningham, at which increased Allied cooperation with Ethiopian irregulars, and the liberation of Italian East Africa was agreed (Dear, 2005, Oxford Companion to World War II, p. 245).
Price: $125.00 AU