staff-map

Updated: May 19, 2025

Then he gave me coffee and ham and good bread, and he looked at my map. "What is this?" he cried, growing red in the face. "It is the staff-map of one Stumm, a German skellum who commands in yon city," I said. 'He looked at it close and read the markings, and then he read the other paper which you gave me, Dick. And then he flung up his arms and laughed.

John Buchan - Greenmantle

Buda-Pesth, on the way there, is a lovely city; Bucharest also; and charming Vienna was not at all too far away if you had a good staff-map and a lively military imagination. In yet another paper there was a vivid picture scenery, date, Greenwich time, and all to give an air of artistic verisimilitude of the signing of the Peace armistice.

Sir Frank Fox - Bulgaria