Press photographs mainly on the Second World War,... Lot 1

Press photographs mainly on the Second World War, the Liberation, Asia, Japan, North Africa, Europe, Germany, France and miscellaneous. Set of around fifty prints, mostly silver, several counter-types and reproductions. Circa 1940-50. On verso of some prints, captions (e.g.: the race of the estafettes, soldiers of a Corps Franc patrolling a frontline village, the Sino-Japanese war, permissionnaires disembark at the Gare de l'Est and they're all smiles, Night Life in Russian Berlin, disarmament of the German army has begun, French officers talking to a German prisoner, trial, firing exercises with gas masks, large military maneuver in North Africa, tank in action, heavy artillery, etc.) and/or stamp. Various states and formats.