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Features: Australia's first air V.C. - Wing Commander H.I. Edwards; Photos of Italian and German POWs in Africa; Presentation of the Polish air force flag in England - six photos; Russia bombs Rumanian oil-fields; Diagram of German gliders used at the battle of Crete - landing air troops; Four fantastic low-level daylight photos of the R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam - 100,000 tons of enemy shipping crippled; Russia's resistance - article by Cyril Falls; Photos from Russia - where Soviet troops are at death-grips with the German enemy; Centerfold illustration of 'Winnie", a huge camouflaged English gun which hurls vast shells across the channel into German-occupied territories; Two full-page illustrations of giant English guns mounted on rail cars; Photos of England's 'Front-Line" Town - Dover; Photos of leading personalities of the week; Two-page map of the western Pacific illustrates America's strategic air and naval position in relations to Japan and Singapore; Photos of the "Robin Moor" being blown up by the Germans - the first U.S. ship torpedoed by Germany; Three photos of the Robin Moor's survivors at sea; Full page family photo of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their two children, aged five and four; Article on the Plover; Full-page Dunlot ad shows how they serve agriculture; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows air crews with their planes in background. Average wear. Faint ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
28 pages plus advertorial covers. Extensive WWII coverage including: Karsh cover photo of Churchill and Mackenzie King; Five photos of "Huge Military Convoy Reaching India Without Losing a Ship or Man - Disembarkation Scenes"; Two-page illustration of "The Relative Size, Velocity and Weight of Shell Used in the Latest North African Battles - General Grant Tanks, The Mark IV, and the German 88-m.m. anti-tank gun"; Ten Photos of devastation in Malta, "The Heroic Island, continuously battered from the air, unfailing courage of the most bombed place in the world"; Article on the Threat to Egypt; Eight photos of bomb damage to Canterbury and other historic sites; Photo-illustrated review of "Last Train From Berlin" by Howard K. Smith; One-page photo of 'starboard vista' view of British aircraft carrier; Six illustrations of the fighting in Africa by Captain McIntyre of New Zealand; Six aerial photos of Mersa Matruh, Libya, now in the hands of Rommel; Centerfold illustration of Senior army officers being trained to fix trucks; Photos of scorched earth in Sollum, Libya; Aerial photo of bomb damage to 'Gneisenau' at Brest; Photo of King Feisal II of Iraq on his 7th birthday; Photo of emblems of Yugoslavia's guerilla army - featuring skull and crossbones; Photo of U.S. sailor being trained to swim in a sea of buring oil!; Excellent photo illustrates the 56 personnel needed to maintain, service and fly a heavy bomber of the 'Sterling' type, including plane, fuel truck, bomb trailers, etc.; Photo of King George of the Hellenes addressing joint session in Washtington; Royal Visit to Ulster; Excellent one-page photos of dozens of 'General Grant' tanks, used in the Battle of Libya, under construction at the giant Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit; Photo-illustrated article on Sir James Dewar and his pursuit of liquid air and liquid hydrogen; Five photos of the British Army training in troop-carrier gliders; Twelve excellent photos illustrating "Sebastapol's heroic defence against overwhelming odds in Crimea - scenes from the Russian battlefronts opposing Germany's gathering offensive; Photos of personalities of the week including Mervyn Haigh, Dwight Eisenhower, C.S. Staniland, Elinor Mordaunt, parents of Kenneth Campbell, V.C., Churchill with Attlee, Eden and Sinclair, Churchill with wife and daughter, Wife of able seaman Savage, V.C., Sir Edwin Cooper, V.A. Crutchley, V.C., Lord Glanely, Tom Driberg, and parents of Petty Officer Sephton, V.C. Unmarked with average wear. Spine taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; red tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
88 pages. Features: Canadian Club color-photo ad features mountain kite-skiing with Jeff Jobe of Seattle; Energy Minister Donald MacDonald; James Bay Development Corp. is opposed by Cree Indians; Abortion advocate Dr. Henry Morgentaler celebrates his acquittal; Richard Nixon Presses His Counterattack; New Secret Service Chief Stuart Knight; Memories of John F. Kennedy - article with three photos; Energy Crisis; Students rise against Papadopoulos in Greece; Middle East War Prisoners Come Home; Battle Between Israel's military leaders; Anwar Sadat's Plan - Nationalist and Sober; Kissinger visits Chou En-Lai; Confucius is Alive in Canton; Princess Anne's Wedding - article with colour-photos; Celebrity photos include Beverly Sills, Joel Grey, Billie Jean King, O.J. Simpson, Dizzy Gillespie and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke; Ernie DiGregorio of the NBA's Buffalo Braves; Johnny Rodgers of the Montreal Alouettes; Gliders (soaring); Columbo - A Cop For All Seasons; and more. Four-inch opening along bottom of coverfold. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Light wear and small tears on dust jacket. 7 7/8"w x 10 3/8"h. 252 pages.
1980WOC-1789Le Vol à Voile Genevois: Son Histoire 1909-1980 - 50 Ans de Souvenirs 1930-1980. Nombreuses illustrations. Groupe de Vol à Voile de L'Aéro-Club de Genève, 1980. In-4 (27x20,5cm) de cartonnage souple illustré. 131pp.
