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Booklet - Manual, Air Raid Precautions: Manual of General Training, 1939

Air Raid Manual cover

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Physical description

Grey paperboard cover, 64pp, bound with staples and red bookbinding tape.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Some notations written in pencil on cover, including name M Morgan

Summary

From introduction: 'a condensed summary of the contents of numerous handbooks which have been issued in relation to the protection of the general public and the precautions which should be taken against the effects of an air raid. It has been prepared so that, for reference purposes, trainees may have the main points of all the various phases of this complex subject embraced in one small volume.'<br/>Contains chapters on types of bombs, poison war gases and other poisonous substances, protective clothing, preparation of a refuge room, first aid, nursing of gassed patients, decontamination.