Pocket guide to Egypt [electronic resource] / prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army.

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Title	Pocket guide to Egypt [electronic resource] / prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army.
Alternative Title	Egypt.
Item Number	w0024
Creator (Corporate)	United States. War Dept. Navy Dept. United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division
Government Publisher	War and Navy Departments; U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1943
Physical Description	57 p. : ill. , 1 map ; 14 cm.
Notes	For use of Military Personnel only. Not to be republished, in whole or in part, without the consent of the War Department.--Inside front cover.
Table of Contents	Introduction -- Money -- Currency table -- Paper notes -- Weights and measures -- Calendar and time -- Check list of do's and don'ts -- Hints on pronouncing Arabic -- List of most useful words and phrases -- Additional words and phrases -- Notes.
Summary	You're bound for Egypt for just one job: To beat the enemy and help bring conclusive victory for the Allied Nations. To do that, you've got to use your brains as well as your body. As an American soldier, you'll also become a sort of Ambassador for your country. Wherever you go, people are going to judge the United States by you... We've got a fairly good reputation in the world at large right now. Don't spoil it. Make it better... Egypt hasn't declared war on the Axis: but she is friendly to the United Nations. Dr. Goebbels and every one of his aides is working to switch that friendship. The enemy wants you to make mistakes, and so he is working day and night, with his propaganda. He wants you not to get along with your partners - the soldiers of our Allies who are in Egypt. But most of all, he wants you to make mistakes with the Egyptians. He hopes that, perhaps unwittingly, your manners will offend them, that you'll trample clumsily on their customs, that you'll insult their religion, and that you'll make mistakes about their social attitudes and political beliefs... In order to conduct yourself well in the eyes of the Egyptians, you need to know a little about Egypt, of course. Well, what does an average American know about it? Sure, it has pyramids -- and palm trees -- and people ride on camels. We've all seen travel movies. And the children of Israel fled from Pharaoh across the Red Sea to the Promised Land. We know that much from our Bibles. But that's hardly enough to equip you as a one-man good-will mission. Thousands of books have been written about Egypt, but no one of them can tell you all about the country. It's too big and too different from anything Americans know about. So, a different sort of guidebook has been prepared for your information, giving in brief ABC form, a few of the things that may interest you and some of the things you need to know. If you exercise a normal amount of curiosity, you'll soon find out more about the land of Egypt than is possible to put in any guidebook.--p.1-2.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States.
Geographic Terms	Egypt--Description and travel.
Gov Doc Classification	W 109.110:E 32
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	w0024.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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