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Cover: The First Entry of Canadians into Caen. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The Bank of England: 1694 - 1944" by Reginald Saw; The Great World War: Moving on in Italy (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Wood Comes of Age. Pictorial Journals include: In Liberated Caen: The Mayor Hoisting the Tricolour; Caen After the Battle: The Key City of Lower Normandy, whose Capture Marked a Valorous British Victory; Two Aerial Photos: German Atlantic Wall, Eastern Section of the Cherbourg Peninsula; On the Western Front (Battle of Normandy): War and Its Aftermath; On the Western Front: Scenes From the Battle Zones of British and American Armies in Normandy; The Red Army Surges On: Important Cities in the Path of Battle; A Lancashire Fusilier's V.C.: Fusilier (Francis Arthur) Jefferson, Single-Handed, Breaking Up an Enemy Tank Attack (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); The Onward Advance of Gen. Alexander's Armies: War Scenes at Castiglione, Lake Trasimeno, The French Entry into Siena; Mediaeval San Gimignano and Its Towers; The War in Burma: The Clearing of the Kohima-Imphal Road; The Japanese Main Fleet Caught Napping - Another U.S. Sea Victory (Battle of Philippine Sea); New Additions to our Fighting Power: Flying Bombs from Start to Finish; A Threatened View - Durham Cathedral from River and Railway (illustrated by Sir Muirhead Bone); and War's Trail of Devastation in Normandy: Historic Buildings Wrecked in Fierce Armoured Battles on the Allied Front. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: For Training in Bombing of Enemy Ships: A Replica of a Japanese Battleship, Used as a Target for Practice Precision Bombing by the U.S. Air Forces. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Years of Victory, 1802 - 1812" by Arthur Bryant; The Great World War: Australia and the Pacific War; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: New Problems of Meteoritic Bombs. Pictorial Journals include: Two Sketches From the British Second Army Front in Holland (illus, by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Approaches to Germany: The Active Fronts, West and East (maps); The Western Front: Scenes from British and U.S. Battlefields; U.S. Troops in Fort Driant: The Fall of a Formidable Metz Fortress; The War at Sea: From H.M.S. "Howe" at Suez to Prefabricated Tugs; The Troubles in Athens: Alexander's Arrival - Partisan Prisoners; Our Heavy Sacrifices for the General Liberation of Greece; The Difficult Situation in Greece: Personalities and Events; One of the Gallant Acts for Which Lt. Colonel Henry Robert Bowreman Foote, D.S.O., has Been Decorated With the V.C. (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Sidelights on the Western Front: News From Germany and France; The New "Lungs" of the U'Boat: The Schnorkel Breathing System (illus. by G.H. Davis); Tito's Partisan's, With British Gunners and R.A.F., Score in Yugoslavia; Allied Partisans in Italy: Scenes Taken Behind Enemy Lines; and Trails of War Destruction in Normandy: Famous Churches and Historic Monuments Destroyed. Page 703/704 missing. Page 725/726 loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Cover: A British Tribute to a Great American: An Artist's Impression of the Layout for the Proposed (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt Memorial in Grosvenor Square. Features include: Our Notebook; The World of Science: Meteorites and Meteors; A Cast Iron Ring 2500 Years Old: Further Discoveries in the Byci Skala Cave; 100,000 Years of Central European History: Recent Moravian Discoveries Related to the Story of Man; Book Review: "Four Studies in Loyalty": by Christopher Sykes; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The King Opens Parliament in Semi-State: Historic Pageantry Tempered by Austerity; Veteran Cars in the London to Brighton 50th Anniversary Run; For the Grand Tour or Round of Calls: A Museum of Carriages; The Price of the Palestine Mandate: British Losses in a New "Reign of Terror"; In Honourable Retirement After Many a Hazardous Duty: The Little Ships of the Navy at Anchor; Maritime and Other News Items; From Aircraft to Car - And Vice Versa - In Seven Minutes!; A Great Meteor as Seen in New Mexico, USA (1933); To Clean or Not to Clean (Art Restoration); Restoring Confidence and Self-Reliance in Blinded Servicemen: Work and Recreation at St. Dunstan's (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); From the World's Scrapbook; and Postscripts of Two Wars: Air and Fire Disasters. Page 581/582 missing. Page 595/596 loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Cover: Le Touquet, France Canadian Soldiers Walking Along Promenade. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Norfolk Portraits" by R.W. Ketton-Cremer; The Great World War: Is This the Final Round? (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Problem of Migrating Birds. Pictorial Journals include: Stubborn Resistance - American Troops in Moving Up for the Final Assault; The Greatest of Airborne Operations - The Invasion of Holland; Canals and Rivers of the Netherlands, Scene of a Vital Battle (inc map); Le Havre: The British Capture of the Important Enemy-Held Port; Infantry and Flame-Throwers in Action: Some of the Prisoners; The Triumphant Advance of the Allies: Scenes of Liberated France and Belgium; The Dutch Landscape Covered with Grounded and Falling Allied Parachutes; The First Penetration By U.S. Troops of the Siegfried Line; The A.V.R.E.: A British Mortar Tank Designed for Breaching Fortifications; The Battle of Britain Commemoration Service in Westminster Abbey on Sunday, September17, 1944; Secrets of the Flying Bomb: Constructional Details Revealed; The Mystery Structure Near St. Omer - Believed a Long-Range V-2 Base; The Quebec Conference, 1944; War Items of Interest; Pencil Studies of Gandhi and Jinnah, Who Recently Met in Bombay (illus. by Feliks Topolski); and Norman Wilkinson's Exhibition of "War at Sea" Paintings in London. Advertising cover: moderate to excessive wear, with prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Page 339/340 missing. Page 361/362 loose but present. Covers loose and taped at fold. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy reading copy. Book
Cover: Hungarian Hyperinflation - Pengo Notes of High Denomination Not Worth Picking Up and Considered as Rubbish. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci" by A.E. Popham and "Fragonard Drawings for Ariosto": by Elizabeth Mongan et al; Aftermath of War: Record of the 19th Indian Division; The World of Science: Speed in Water; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: Inflation in Hungary: Where a Million Pengos Buys a Cigarette; A Modern Pompeii: Cassino and Its Famous Abbey (Abbey of Monte Cassino) Two Years After the Battle Which Laid Town and Monastery in Ruins; Abdication and Accession in Italy: The New King (Umberto II) and His Family; Travelling Comfortably at 25,000 Ft.: Pressure Cabins in Air-Liners (Illus. by G.H. Davis); Royal Occasions: At Home and Abroad; The Princesses at a London Rally of 8000 Rangers: Ceremonies in Hyde Park and the Albert Hall; The King and Queen Received Ad Portas at Winchester College; Mosaics at the Low Ham Roman Villa: Further Beauties Revealed; The "Gateway of England" for the Airborne Visitors: London Airport (Illus. by G.H. Davis); Life and Still-Life Portrayed by Dutch and Flemish Masters; Fine Paintings from the Golden Age of Dutch Art; and Speed-Kings of the Seas and Rivers: A Pictorial Chart Showing the Speeds of Aquatic Animals (Illus. by G.H. Davis). Front cover present but attached with tape. Back page missing. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Cover: Major-General Patton, Commanding the American Third Army in Northern France. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "English Social History" by G.M. Trevelyan; The Great World War: Offensive Campaigns in France (inc map); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: A Secret Weapon in the Insect War. Pictorial Journals include: "The Army of France is in Being Again, Fighting on Its Own Soil for the Liberation of Its Country"; A Massed Daylight Attack by R.A.F. Heavy Bombers on German Positions Near Falaise: Aircraft Flying In and Bombs Bursting on the Target Area; Shattered Falaise: The Birthplace of William the Conqueror To-Day; With the British and Canadian Forces in Normandy: Action Photographs as Our Men Sweep Forward; The Citadel - Last Enemy-Held Strong-Point in St. Malo - Captured; Sidelights on the Fighting in Northern France: The Capture of Orleans and Dreux and Other Points in the General Advance; Destruction of the Retreating Enemy Army - As Seen From the Air; The Allied Invasion of Southern France; The Scene of Successful Allied Landings in Southern France: A Pictorial Map From Coasts to Mountains (Illus. by G.H. Davis); First Allied Landings in Southern France: Mr. Churchill in Italy; The Allied Entry into Florence; Sidelights on the War: News From Various Battlefronts; and One of the Greatest Donations of Eighteenth Century French Painting Ever Received by a Museum - The Kress Collection. Binding Sound. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: Nature as a Jeweller: Actissa Princeps, One of the Protozoa, Resembling a Jewelled Decoration. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Reflections in a Mirror: Second Series" by Charles Morgan; Aftermath of War: Record of the Seventy-Ninth Armoured Division; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Problem of the Edible Frog. Pictorial Journals include: A Drop of Water as Nature's "Jewel-Case": The Strange Beauty of Microscopic Living "Gems" Modelled in Glass; An Echo of Our Greatest Blow at the Ruhr: The Mohne Dam Today; Lord (Harold) Alexander's Installation as Governor-General of Canada; MacKenzie King, Prime Minister, Addressing a Welcome to the Lord (Harold) Alexander, the New Governor-General of Canada; "The Grace of Humility": His Majesty Dispensing Alms in the Royal Maundy Ceremony at Westminster Abbey (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); When Gold is Found: The Ancient Art of Assaying; The New Home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory: Historic Hurstmonceux Castle, in the Sussex Weald; The American Scene: News Pictures From the States; The Ionosphere Rocket: A New Projectile to be Used For Meteorological Purposes; Camouflage on the Grand Scale: A "Housing Estate" on Netting Above a Vast American Aircraft Plant; The British Scene: News Events in London, Yorkshire and Oxfordshire; The Ingenuity of Prisoners-Of-War: Mechanical Gadgets Made of Junk; News Items at Home and Abroad; Classified By Hoefnagel with Insects: The Mysterious Hairy Folk; Pages From Artists' Sketchbook: A Novel Exhibition; and Masterpieces of British Water-Colour at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Pages 385-420. Please note: pages 399-406 missing. Features: Cover illustration of Lieutenant Miller of the King's (Liverpool Regiment) driving back Germans at Givenchy; Przemysl - Fallen to the Russians after a Long Seige; Illustration of how the enemy's mines float downstream resulting in the loss of battle-ships in the Dardanelles; Photos of Lord Kitchener at Liverpool and Manchester Parades; Two-page illustration by Richard Caton Woodville depicts an heroic attack by the King's (Liverpool Regiment) on German trenches; Photos of City (London) Volunteers as the National Guard marches to the Palace; Large photo of an unexploded german 42 cm. Howitzer shell; Two-page spread with photos, names and ranks of dozens of British officers killed in action; Two-page illustration by John de G. Bryan depicting the gallant attack on the Givenchy Ridge which contributed to the Neuve Chapelle Victory; Interesting photo-illustrated article on the disinfection of wounds; Fight for the Narrows - three photos including one of the French battle-ship "Bouvet" before it was lost to a mine; Photos of five ships prior to their being lost or damaged - H.M.S. Inflexible, the French battleship Gaulois, H.M.S. Irresistable, H.M.S. Ocean and the German cruiser Karlshruhe; Wonderful full-page illustrated at for Buchanan's Scotch Whiskies shows food ship coming up the Thames at night; Touching full-page Oxo ad shows commrades at the bedside of a wounded friend in Northern France; Beecham's Pills ad inside back cover; Wana-Ranee (Ceylon Perfume) ad on back cover; Many other magnificent vintage ads. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Book
Cover: The Drawing Room Window of Jane Austen's Cottage at Chawton, Hampshire. Features include: Our Notebook; Aftermath of War: The Greek Complaint to the Security Council (inc. map); Book Review: "Foreign Mud": by Maurice Collis; The World of Science: Ennerdale Water and Its Fauna; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The Birthplace of Immortal Books: Chawton Cottage - Where Jane Austen Lived and Wrote; The Princesses' Personal Setting: T.R.H. in Their Private Apartments; A Problem Confronting the United Nations: The Greek Guerilla War; "Blotmaster" But Notable Artist: The Tate Alexander Cozens Show; India at the Crossroads: Nehru's Proposal of a Republic at the First Constituent Assembly; Events of the Day: Hamburg Tribunal on Inhuman Crimes at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, Manhattan Tenement Disaster; The Setting of the Christmas Story: Christendom's Birthplace; Naval Relics Exhibited in Paris; Clearing the Corfu Channel (Minesweeping); The Glow of Cape Town at Night: Floodlit Table Mountain; The March into Azerbaijan: Persian Troops on the Frontier; Life and Trade in the Deep Snows of the Canadian Arctic (Baker Lake Settlement), Where "Skins" Buy Gramophones for Thriving Eskimos; Heating Homes in England; Clay Sculptures Which Summarise the Blackfellow's Legends and Culture: An Australian Artists's (William Ricketts) Thoughts About The Aborigines; Wild Flowers that Bloom Where Christmas Falls in High Summer; and Unique Flowers of a Unique Landscape: Some of Australia's Lovely Flora. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: The King's Visit to the Western Front: His Majesty Enjoying a Joke with General Dwight Eisenhower on the Steps of the U.S. First Army H.Q., With Them Are Lt. General Omar Bradley and Lt. General Courtney Hodges. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Verdict on India" by Beverley Nichols; The Great World War: U.S. Landing in the Philippines (inc. maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: A Bomb-Sensitive Plant. Pictorial Journals include: Pictures Taken During His Majesty's Five-Day Visit to the Front; Just Retribution - The German Civilians' Turn to Be Refugees; U.S. Troops Mop Up the Last Remaining Enemy Strong Points in Aachen; The Way of Desolation: Once a Busy Street in Aachen; On the Western Front: Scenes From the Battlefields of Holland; Building Up the Dutch Salient: Allied Armour Pouring into Holland for the Great Offensive (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); A Huge Factory-Made Invasion Port: "Mulberry" The Pre-Fabricated Harbour of the Normandy Bridgehead; British Troops Landing in Greece: Scenes in Liberated Athens; The Surrender of Polish Patriots in Warsaw: Capitulation Scenes; The "Leigh" Light: A German Explosive Speed-Boat; Paris Cycle-Taxis; Fort Driant; Winning a Jumping-Off Area for the Philippines: Peleiu, in the Palaus; An Isle of Vital Weather Forecasts: The Lonely Jan Mayen Island; Links With Turner: Relics of the Great Painter for the Nation; and The Start of Civil Aviation - London to Paris 25 Years Ago. Page 479/480 missing. Page 501/502 loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
Cover: Air Chief-Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory Conferring with General Montgomery. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Reviews: "China, My China" by H. Rattenbury and "China and Britain" by Sir J. Pratt; The Great World War: The Stroke Launched at Hitler; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Australia's Wool Effort. Pictorial Journals include: Bombing Used as a Super Artillery Barrage Before an Attack; The Ramparts and Moats of the "European Fortress": A Perspective Map of Continental Europe, Indicating Contours, as Viewed from the Ural Mountains, Looking Westward; Germany's "Human Torpedo" Compared with the British Version; British Offensive On the Western Front: Troops in Action, and a Map of the Normandy Battle Zone; Mr. Churchill Pays a Three-Day Visit to the Normandy Front; Germany's Internal Crisis: Leading Rebel and Pro-Hitler Generals; Battle Scene in Normandy; The Eastern Front: Russian Generals Directing the Westward Surge (inc. map); The Eastern Front: Aspects of the Red Army's Great Forward Drive; U.S. Troops Landing in Guam; The Capture of Saipan Island; Germany's Most Appalling Crime: The Ghastly Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane; Troglodytes of 1944: Some Aspects of Life in London's Deep Shelters; Sidelights on War - And the Peaceful Scene of Ruskin's House; and Army/Air Co-Ordination: A Mobile Control Unit of the 2nd T.A.F. (illustrated by Flight Lieut. H.W. Hailstone). Binding sound. Large clipping missing from page 139/140. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Some ink smudges to back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. Book
Cover: The Battered Belgian Town of Houffalize. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Britain in Pictures" series; The Great World War: The Second Stage on the Eastern Front (inc map); Books of the Day; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and The World of Science: The Last Ice Ages in Russia. Pictorial Journals include: Mortars Firing "Flying Dustbins", Demolition "Beehives" (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Night Retreat of German Guns: Pictures from the Western Front; British Troops in Action in the Snow: The Occupation of Heinsberg; U.S. First Army Takes St. Vith; Masters of a Difficult Technique - Mosquitoes in Norwegian Fjords; Liberated Warsaw - Largely in Ruins; Inside a Modern British Cruiser (Illus. by Lieut. Stephen Bone); The Russian Hurricane Offensive into Germany: Important Cities and Industrial Centres Captured by their Arms; German Pockets Still Resisting in Liberated France (inc. maps); Community Heating: A System Which Keeps an Entire Town Warm (illus. by G.H. Davis); Damaged Naples Churches Repaired in the Face of all Difficulties; and Typifying the Trend of Russian Art in General: An Exhibition of Soviet Graphic Art in London. Page 115/116 missing. Page 137/138 loose but present with moderate wear. A very small soil spot to pages 126 - 130 inclusive. Moderate wear. A sound reference copy. Book
Cover: A Triumph of Road-making: The First Allied Convoy to China to Break the Japanese Blockade. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Persons and Places" by George Santayana; The Great World War: The American Passage of the Roer (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Locust's Year of Decision. Pictorial Journals include: The Rocket That Would Not Go Up! - Photos of an ill-fated rocked experiement by Herr Johannes Winkler in 1932; U-Boat Warfare - 1939 - 1945: A Survey of Changing German Submarines and Tactics in a Never-Ceasing Battle (Illus. by G.H. Davis); War Scraps: Incidents at the Front and Behind the Lines; On the Western Front: The American Advance into Germany; Battle Incidents with the Third and Seventh U.S. Armies; The Battle for Goch: British Troops in the Wrecked German Fortress Town; General Crerar's Offensive: The Storming of Cleve (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); General Crerar's Offensive: British Troops in Mortal Combat With the Germans in the Reichswald (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Zeitz Synthetic Oil Plant: Before the R.A.F. Attack - And After; War in the Pacific: Luzon Island and Iwo Jima; With the Red Army: Scenes From Liberated Poznan; Bombed Bath: Proposals for Replanning; and Masterpieces of Painting From the Cook Collection. 8" opening to page 241/242. Remaining contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy copy. Book
Cover: Royal Highnesses Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, New Governor-General to Australia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "U.S. War Aims" by Walter Lippmann; The Great World War: "Mulberry" and the Invasion; Books of the Day and The World of Science: Kew and the War. Pictorial Journals include: Scenes from Athens: A Demonstration, and an Echo of a Shooting (illus, by Flight-Lieut. H.W. Hailstone); The Reign of Anarchy in Athens: Scenes in the Troubled Capital; Von Rundstedt's Sudden Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg (map); Germany's Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg: Towns in the News; Two German "Squirt Planes": The Me.262 and the Me.163 Fighters (illus. by G.H. Davis); The War in Italy: Eighth Army Troops Entering Faenza and Ravenna; London of the XVIth Century: Panoramas of the Ancient City as it Looked Before the Great Fire; London Triumphant: The Great Metropolis of the British Empire (Four page panoramic illustration by Sydney R. Jones); The City of London of the Future: Preliminary Proposals; A Scheme for the Prevention of Overcrowding in London; Aspects of the War in the West: Scenes from the Fighting Zones and a Panoramic of Port of Antwerp; Flooded Walcheren: Life on the Island Following the Devastation Caused by the Smashing of the Sea Dykes; and An Exhibition of Flemish Old Masters in Aid of Belgium Children. Back page missing. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy copy. Book
Cover: Queen Elizabeth in a Fragonard Setting. Features include: Our Notebook; The Great World War: Behind the Fronts in Russia; The Glorious Wild Life of Africa; The World of Science: A Citizen of the World - The Pig; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The End of the Papua Campaign: Japan's Army Annihilated; Three Vantage Sites of Recent Importance: The Siege of Leningrad Lifted, The Germans Surrounded at Stalingrad and Veliki Luki Captured; The Great Russian Drive to the West Goes On; Tripoli, City of a Million Palms, Falls to the Eighth Army; The Mareth Line, Which Rommel May Defend: Some of the Forts (inc map); Christmas Day in Tripolitania: Seasonal Fare and Concert Parties; The "Priest": 8th Army Howitzer Which Beat the German 88-MM Gun; Men Behind Montgomery's Victory: The R.A.O.C., Who Provided the Eighth Army with the Sinews of War (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); Tunisian Background: Scenes from the Area of the North African Campaign; Tripoli Surrenders to Montgomery: Scenes at the Triumphal Entry; Camera Occasions: News Items of Interest at Home and Overseas; Remains of the Great Roman Empire on the Route to Tripoli; Bombs Fall on Lille and Berlin; Daylight Raid on London; and How Pre-Fabricated Sections are used in the Building of Merchant Ships in British Shipyards (illustrated by G.H. Davis). Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Binding loose, staples rusted. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy copy. Book
Cover: The Camera's "Eye" Looks at Earth From a V-2 Rocket During American Tests. Features include: Our Notebook; A Romantic Find: Two of the Missing Fouquet Miniatures From the Hours of Etienne Chevalier; Book Review: "Portrait of the Dalai Lama": by Sir Charles Bell; Aftermath of War: New Light on German Invasion Plans (inc. maps); The World of Science: Wolves of the Water; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: "Free and Unfettered"? The Rumanian Elections; Dartmoor, One of England's Greatest Playgrounds, Which May be Acquired for Military Training; A National Heritage of Beauty Where Claims of the Public and the Services Conflict; The Price of the Palestine Mandate: British Losses in a New "Reign of Terror"; An Epic Rescue Rivalling Fiction: Crash Victims Rescued by Fieseler Storch from the Swiss Alps; Road and Rail Transport for Their Majesties in South Africa; Inundated Farmland, and Impassable Raods: The Havoc of Storms; Britain A Desolate Waste of Water: Results of Ceaseless Rain; Aluminium Homes By the Thousand, Instead of Bombers: The "Clapham Junction" of a Former Aircraft Factory (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Aluminium Home: Produced Every Five Minutes, Erected Inside an Hour, Good for 100 Years of Life; The Long Suffering Public: Scenes in Manchester's Unofficial Bus Strike; Events on Land and Sea Recorded by Camera; Home News in Pictures; A "Fish That Eats Men": Enlarged Photograph of the Deadly Jaws of the Small Piraya (Piranha); and The New British Film "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby". Page 613/614 missing. Page 627/628 loose but present. A worthy reference copy. Book
Cover: The "General Sherman" of the Western Front: Lieut.-General George S. Patton. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Witchcraft in England" by Christina Hole; The Great World War: The Campaigns in the Far East (inc map); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Australia's Living Fossils. Pictorial Journals include: The Collapsed Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen: Views From Both Banks of the Rhine; The Storming of Coblenz: American Third Army Troops in Action; Street Fighting Among the Ruins of the Great Rhine Citadel; The Capture of Saarbrucken and Worms: White Flags in Durenbach; General (Miles) Dempsey's Field Headquarters Parked on the Grounds of a Chateau (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); With the Allied Armies on Both Banks of the Rhine; Scenes from the Western Front; Smoke-Screen on the Rhine; The New British 10-Ton Bomb in the Making - And What It Does!; Montgomery's Crossing of the Rhine: The 21st Army Group's Sweep to the East Bank of the Rhine River; The Campaign in the Southwest Pacific: The Australians on Bougainville; The Victorious Drive on Mandalay: British and Indian Troops on Mandalay Hill; and The American Red Cross Club, Rainbow Corner in London (Illus. by Terence T. Cuneo). Binding sound. Prior owners ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover which is loose but present. Back advertorial cover missing. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: New York's First White Christmas in Fifteen Years. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Burford, Past and Present" by Mary Sturge Gretton; Aftermath of War: Record of the First Canadian Division; "Of Old Sat Freedom"; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Poisoning the Parasite. Pictorial Journals include: Guards Chapel Services Resumed on the Tragic Site; The Railroad of Death: Drawings by Charles Thrale, one of the 7000 P.O.W.s; Life in a Java Refugee Camp: Internees "At Home" in Semarang; Ersatz Foods for Hungry Germany: British Products in Berlin; Preparing Food Substitutes at the British Laboratory in Berlin; The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Viewed From the East: A Unique Building Designed by John Nash for the Prince Regent (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Centre of Regency Life in Brighton: The Royal Pavilion (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Regency Magnificence as a Present-Day Municipal Asset (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Roosevelt's Hyde Park Home to Be a Public Museum; The Passing of a Great U.S. Soldier: General (George S.) Patton's Funeral in Heidelberg; Germany - Past and Present: Memories and Legacies of the Third Reich; War and Peace: The Past and the Future; Recent Acquisitions by the Victoria and Albert Museum; and The Lost Monastery of Alahan: Christian Remains in Roman Cilicia. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: At the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, 1945: H.M. The King, A Portrait for the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Maquis" by George Millar; The Great World War: Breakdown of German Resistance (inc map); Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The Charnel Pits of the Belsen Internment Camp: Bodies Being Removed for Christian Burial (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Belsen Death Camp, Where Prisoners Were Scientifically Exterminated (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); (Benito) Mussolini Executed April 29: Incidents in His Career; U.S. Victories in Germany: Scenes in Nuremberg, Leipzig and Munich; Pictures from Occupied Germany: East and West Meet; Bremen Captured: Germany's Second Largest Port Falls to the Allies; The Battle of Bremen: British Forces' (52nd Lowland Division) Assault on the Great Port (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); British Tanks of the 4th Armoured Brigade Passing Through the Heart of Bremen (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Scenes from (Field-Marshal) Alexander's Victories in the Long and Arduous Campaign in Italy; News Items from Home and Abroad; Hitler's Mountain Home and Refuge Blasted: Berchtesgaden Bombed; Landmarks of Pre-War Berlin: A Map Illustrating the Great Assault; The Battle for Berlin: Scenes from the Dying Reich Capital; Field-Marshal (Sir Bernard) Montgomery and his Team of Liaison Officers; Northern Italy: A Map Showing the Position of Various Important Towns Taken in the Allied Advance; The Rapid Thrust in Italy: Many Important Towns Captured; and German "Squirt" Planes: Details of Captured Enemy Jet Aircraft (photos and a detailed illustration by G.H. Davis). Binding sound. Prior owners ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover. Minimal ink underlining to page 492, otherwise contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
44 pages. This issue devoted entirely to photographic coverage of the passing of Winston Churchill. Fantastic eight full-page colour photos, including centerfold. Many additional pages of black and white photos, including attending dignitaries. Fantastic colour photo full-page ad for the Riley Elf, Mk II, plus a nice colour ad for the Hillman Minx De Luxe. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features include: Book Review: "Left Hand, Right Hand!" by Osbert Sitwell; The Great World War: Allied Passage of the Rhine (inc map); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Revelations of an Instrument. Pictorial Journals include: Forgotten Fronts: "Little Wars" By-Passed by the Main Conflict (inc. maps); British and American Examples of Army Bridges Across the Rhine; Spanning the Rhine: Our Answer to the Enemy's Burnt Bridges; (Field-Marshal Bernard) Montgomery Discussing Details of the Great Allied Assault; With the British Second Army in its Advance East: Up to, and Over, the Rhine in a Massed Assault; British Airborne Troops in the Biggest Air Landing to Date; Battle of the Rhine: In Column of Defeat German Troops of the Wehrmacht Marching to Captivity; Commando Troops of the 21st Army Group in Amphibious Buffaloes Crossing the Rhine on March 23, 1945 (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Heavy Resistance to Montgomery's Offensive: Wasp Flame-Throwers "Hosing" Fanatical German Troops Among the Ruins of Emmerich, Holland (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Scenes During the Stirring Allied Advance into Germany; New Zealand Troops at War as Seen by a New Zealand Artist (Illus. by Capt. Peter McIntyre); and A Phase of Polish Heroism to be Remembered. Advertising cover: Moderate wear, with prior owners ink stamp and signature upoin advertorial front cover. Page 361/362 missing. Page 387/388 loose but present. Remainder of contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: Photos of British troops and supplies at Arnhem, plus battle photos; Photos of damage to Channel ports; photos of sea forts protecting London; and more. Average wear. Prior owner's name and stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Page 397 loose but present (because page 415 has been removed and is not included). Centerfold (loose but present) provides a large and fascinating cut-away diagram of 'the secrets of the flying bomb' - how the robot's flight and dive are automatically controlled. Book
Cover: Greece Votes For the Restoration of the Monarchy by an Overwhelming Majority: King George II, of the Hellenes in London, Where He Awaited the Decision. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Nisi Dominus: A Survey of the Palestine Controversy": by Neville Barbour; Aftermath of War: The Precarious State of Europe; A War-Time Patrol Among the Head-Hunters of Dutch New Guinea; The World of Science: An Isle of Wight Dinosaur; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: Goodwill Cruise: U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt Visits the Mediterranean; World Survey: Topical Pictures From Europe, Canada and China; The World of Wings: Aircraft News of Today and Tomorrow; Mob Rule in Calcutta: Scenes During the Muslim-Hindu Riots; A Voice From the Past: Ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm on Germany's Future; An Interesting Television Broadcast: Dr. L. S. B. Leakey's Discovery of a 6,000,000 (6 Million) Year Old "Preconsul" Jaw Bone (Illus. by Bryan de Grineau); Royal Occasions: The Royal Family at Royal Lodge, Windsor; The Frozen Cliffs of Mount Robson: Remarkable Aerial Photographs of Canada's Noblest Mountain; Head-Hunters' Canoes in the Swamp-Lands of New Guinea; Head-Hunters of the Unexplored Swamps of Dutch New Guinea; Head Hunting Prowess Indicated By Plaited Fibre Head Dresses; Nose Perforations Among the Natives of Dutch New Guinea; From the "Promised Land" to Karaolos Camp: Illegal Jewish Immigrants Detained in Cyprus; Topical Events on Land, Sea and in the Air; An Exhibition on Tour: Gems of a Collection; and "The Most Important Archaeological Discovery Made During the War": Roman Tombs Beneath St. Peter's, Rome. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: Princess Elizabeth's Last Public Engagement in Scotland Before Her Marriage: Launching the Caronia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Austrian Requiem": by Kurt Von Schuschnigg; Aftermath of War: Walter Lippmann and American Foreign Policy (inc. map); The World of Science: This Year's Scarcity of Wasps; Notes for the Novel-Reader; The World of Theatre; Books of the Day; and The Valley of the UnKnown: A Unique and Self-Created Civilisation Revealed in the Borderlands Between India and Tibet. Pictorial Journals include: Their Majesties in Devon and Cornwall: Incidents of the Royal Tour; A Fair State Torn With Rebellion: Beautiful But Distracted Kashmir; Srinagar and Its Surroundings: Views of the "Venice of the East"; The "Modern Vermeer" Picture Trial: (Han) Van Meegeren and His Work in Court; Royal Honeymoon Houses in New Forest and Highland Surroundings; The Royal Wedding: A Miscellany of Relevant Events and Items; El Alamein Day in the Desert; Air Achievement and Fire Destruction; Stated to Be "Overwhelmingly Against Trusteeship": South West Africa; Buckingham Palace From the Air; Finished and Accurate to Two-Millionths of an Inch: California's Giant 200-Inch Telescope Mirror; From Isaac Oliver to Cosway: Some Rockliff Collection Miniatures; Tudor Silver for the Victoria and Albert Museum; Exquisite French Furniture; Apa Tani Justice: Private and Public; A Unique People in a Primitive Paradise; Where Neolithic Cultivation Methods Support a Himalayan People in Plenty; The Unknown Valley: Social Types and Rural Customs of a Unique Civilization; Religion and Sport in the Unknown Valley; and The Apa Tani People: Their Homes and Customs. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Nice colour Guinness ad inside front cover; Photos of enemy supply shipping under air attack, and aflame; The new "Covenanter" Tank; Super page of 14 illustrations of Russian aircraft, including a photo of the L-760 six-engined bomber; 2 pages of illustrations of the work of air crews; Photos of the Navy's latest aircraft-carriers - "Formidable" and "Victorious"; Photos of Marshal Vorshilov, Marshal Budenny, and Marshal Timoshenko; Illustrations of Nazi army and air force commanders on the Russian front; Personalities of the week include photos of Lord Gort's official call at Algeciras and Bruno Mussolini, the Duce's second son killed in an air crash; Elevin Interesting photos of action on the Russian front - including the pathetic image of dozens of Russian refugees in a ditch; Impressive centerfold illustration depicts the bravery of the first New Zealand V.C. of the war, awarded to Sergeant J.A. Ward who climbed onto his planes wing to extinguish a fire at 13,000 feet; Photos of British, Australian, and Indian forces defending Malaya against Japanese 'Chess-Moves" in the Pacific; Great photos of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia/Java) in military and naval preparations; Photos of Boeing's "Flying Fortress" on the ground with R.A.F. members; Wonderful photos of Mrs. Washburn - the first woman to attain the summit of Mount Bertha, Alaska; Colour ad for North British Rubber inside back cover; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover shows grain being cut by a horse-drawn machine. Average wear. Faint ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
