The Illustrated London News - January to June 1944

Volume of The Illustrated London News - January to June 1944

Ex-Library so all the usual labels and stamps

720 pages - Very Heavy Book

Condition - Hardcover has lots of wear and tear but internally fairly clean, some tears and wear.  For more information and photos please do not hesitate to contact us.

We cannot guarantee all pages are in the volume.

SAMPLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant
2. Full page of photos and text - Interesting news items from around the world
3. Double page of drawings and text - Searchlight Command
4. Full page article - "Alberoni, or the Spanish Conspiracy" by Simon Harcourt Smith
5. Photos and article - The Ex "Normandie" moves again (now the U.S.S. Lafayette)
6. Full page of photos and text - The Scene of Heroic Fighting: Tarawa and Makin Atolls
7. Double page of photos and text - The Vandal Destruction of Historic Russian Churches
8. Double page of photos and text - The Campaign in Russia - From the German point of view.
9. Full page of small photos and text of the following: Mr WAlter Hutchinson;  Air Chief-Marshal Sir R Peirse;  General Tito;  Mr R Blatchford;  Mr R G Casey, D.S.O.; M.C.;  Mr Justice Bennett;  Dr Bernard W Griffin;  Mr T Pomfret Kilner;  Dom Maurus Caruana
10. Full page photo - "Scharnhorst" The German Battleship sunk in a Artic Battle
11. Double page of photos and text of The War in Italy
12. Full page photo - H.M.S. "Duke of York" firing a Salvo from her After Turret
13. Full page photo - His Majesty King George VI
14. Double page of photos and text - The War in New Guinea
15. Full page of photos and text - Two Great Naval Victories: Those who took part - Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser;  Vice-Admiral R L Burnett;  Captain J Hughes Hallett;  Captain C P Clarke;  Captain C T Addis;  Captain F R Parham;  H.M. Cruiser "Norfolk";  H.M. Cruiser "Belfast";  H.M. Cruiser "Sheffield";  H.M. Cruiser "Jamaica";  H.M. Cruiser "Enterprise";  H.M. Cruiser "Glasgow";  H.M. Destroyer "Saumarez"; Norwegian Destroyer "Stord"
16. Double page drawing - Three German Destroyers Sunk off the Bay of Biscay with the Cruisers "Enterprise" and "Glasgow"
17. Full page of small photos of War Leaders and other famous people:  Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey;  Air Chief-Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory;  Major-General James Doolittle;  Lt-Gen Jacob Devers;  Mr G Henry: Miss Beatrix Potter;  Maj-Gen Sir Foster Newland;  Sgt Navigator Alain John;  Sir William Holdsworth;  Sir Edwin Lutyens;  Mr Robert Spear Hudson;  Captain Geoffrey De Haviland;  Sir Thomas Royden;  Mr C G Ammon;  Col Sir Courtauld Thomson;  Colonel John Gretton;  Mr William Westwood;  Lieut-General Sir Wilfred Lindsell;  Lieut-General A G L McNaughton;  Lieut-General K Stuart;  The Rev E H Fellowes.
18. Full page of photos - Montgomery with the Eighth Army (Scenes from the Italian Front)
19. Full page of photos - Cleaning up Ortona:  Canadians ferret out Germans House by House
20. Double page of drawings with text - The Sinking of the "Scharnhorst": How the Home Fleet outmanoeuvred Germany's 26,000 ton Battleship.
21. Double page of photos and text - Some of the most dramatic photographs of the War:  The Fierce Battle of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Area.
22. Full page of photos and text - Zhitomir, recaptured by the Russians has changed hands four times.
23. Full page drawing and text - Rothenburger's Sunday Parade past the P.O.W. "Cage" at Oflag 9AZ
24. Full page article and pictures - West Wycombe Park for the Nation - Gifted to the National Trust
25. Full page photo with text - General Sir Bernard Mongomery with Lt-Gen Sir Oliver Leese.
26. Full page photo with text - Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, G.C.B; D.S.O.
27. Double page of photos with text taken at a Flying Fortress Station in Britain.
28. Full page article and photos - "Allenby in Egypt", by Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, G.C.B;  C.M.G;  M.C.
29. Full page of drawings and text - Jet-Propulsion explained.
30. Double page drawing - A composite design for a jet propelled aircraft of the future. Double page of photos and text - The Canadians take Ortona
31. Double page drawing and text - The Dramatic last moments of "Scharnhorst", on fire from Bow to Stern.
32. Full page of drawings and text - A Bomb with Wings: The German radio-controlled Rocket Bomb
33. Full page of photos and text - In a Churchill Tank: Crew Members at driving and gun controls
34. Full page of small photos and text of notable people in the public eye:  Sir Francis P Armstrong;  Pte. Richard Kelliher;  Flt.Lt W Ellis Newton;  Mr G Ridley;  Gen Sir Harold E Franklyn;  Air Marshal Sir John Slessor;  Air Chief-Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas;  Lieut-General J A H Gammell;  Major-General W Bedell Smith;  General Ivan Koniev;  General N Vatutin;  General Ivan Bagramyan.
35. Full page of photos and text - Haile Selassie celebrates the anniversary of his Coronation.
36. Double page of photos of The Eastern Apsidal Chapel of the Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey - the lasting memorial to those who fought in the Battle of Britain.
37. Full page photo and text - Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, G.C.B; D.S.O.
38. Double page of photos and text about the manufacture and testing of the famous "M and B 693" drug and article on next page.
39. Small photos of H.M. Escort Carrier "Searcher" and "Battler"
40. Full page of small photos and text of notable people:  The Rev Dr Luke Wiseman;  Prof V Hely-Hutchinson;  Mr John W Dapoe;  Prebendary J H J Ellison;  Sir Kynaston Studd; Air Marshal Sir Keith Park;  Count Galeazzo Ciano;  Marshal Emilio de Bono;  Gaje Ghale;  Lieut.Col F F A Heilgers;  Mr H Bevir Vaisey;  Hon Mrs Stewart Mackenzie;  General Kjazim Orbay;  Lieut.Gen Omar Bradley
41. Double page drawing and text - The Lockheed P.38 Lightning, one of America's most successful fighters.
42. Full page of photos and text - The German development of the rocket as a weapon of war.
43. Full page of photos and text - The P.51B Mustang;  The Taylorcraft Auster III plane;  Grantham House.
44. Full page of photos and text - A Mine School for Army Units, other than R.E., in Italy
45. Full page photo with text - Sir Charles Portal, G.C.B.; D.S.O.; M.C.
46. Full page photo with text - U.S. Air Force Bombers' raid on Rabaul
47. Double page drawing and text - The P.51B Mustang long range fighter plane.
48. Full page of photos and text - The allied landing at Nettuno (many pages)
49. Small photos and text about the YCG-13 Glider
50. Full page photo and text - The Rt. Hon Clement Richard Attlee, M.P.
51. Double page drawing - Latest types of Invasion Craft from a Major Tank-Landing Ship to Amphibious Ducks.
52. Full page of photos and text - The P.I.A.T. Britain's new Infantry Anti-Tank Bomb Projector
53. Full page of photos and text - Mobile Pill-Boxes used by the Greman Army
54. Full page photo and text - The Rt. Hon Ernest Bevin, M.P.
55. 2 pages of photos and text - The Landings South of Rome
56. Full page of photos and text - Varied Scenes on the Leningrad Front:  The Battlefield of Novgorod.
57. Full page of photos and article - Sir Richard Acland's gift of Holnicote Estate to the National Trust.
58. Full page photo and text - Lord Woolton, C.H. 
59. Full page of photos and text - Changteh retaken.
60. Full page of photos and text - Mt. Cassino's Historic Monastery
61. Double page of photos and text - Battlefield Scenes from the Anzio Bridgehead and from other Allied Army Fronts in the Italian Fighting Zone.
62. Full page Drawing and text - The German Me. 323 "Powered Glider" Transport
63. Double page drawing with text - H.M.S. "Helmsdale" in a moderate North Atlantic swell.
64. Full page photo and text - The Rt. Hon Sir Archibald Sinclair, K.T., C.M.G., M.P.
65. Double page of drawings and text - On Board H.M.S. "Pursuer", the Escort Carrier whose Aircraft smashed an Enemy Attack on a valuable convoy.
66. Full page illustration and text - Truk, Japan's main Naval Base, serverly bombed by Admiral Nimitz
67. Double page of photos and text - The Ancient Benedictine Monastery of Monte Cassino and its Treasures.
68. Full page of photos and text - Discoveries at Saqqara.
69. Full page of photos and text - The Tomb of Akhet-Hotep
70. Full page photo and text - The Rt. Hon Mr Herbert Morrison, M.P.
71. Full page of small photos and text - Russia's Generals in the Field - General Nicolai Vatutin;  Marshal Ivan Koniev;  General Malinovsky;  General K A Meretskov;  General L A Govorov;  General P I Tolbukhin;  General Ivan Bagramyan;  General Popov;  General K K Rokossovsky
72. Double page of photos and text - Yugoslavia
73. Double page drawing and text - The P.47 Thunderbolt - An American Fighter Plane
74. Double page of photos and text - The War in the Pacific
75. Full page of photos and text - On the Arakan Front: Indian Troops in action in Burma
76. Double page of photos and text - The Brontes: Their home and familiar surroundings.
77. Full page photo and text - Germany's new "Secret Weapon", a radio-controlled miniature "Beetle" Tank.
78. Full page of photos and text - Operations in Italy: Scenes with the Fifth Army
79. Double page drawing with text - 2 Heinkel 111s, united by a huge main "Plane towing two large Gotha Gliders.
80. Full page photo and text - Sir James Grigg, K.C.B;  K.C.S.I.; M.P.
81. Full page illustration and text - Marshal Ivan Koniev
82. Double page of photos and text - The Campaign in Russia
83. 2 x small photos and text - H.M. Submarine "Stubborn", and members of her crew.
84. Double page drawing and text - In Memoriam - H.M.S. "Penelope"
85. Full page photo and text - The Hon John Gilbert Winant
86. Double page drawing and text - The crew of a U-Boat, with Dinghies and Lifebuoys abandon Ship as the little ships "Starling" and "Wild Goose" pound her.
87. Double page drawing and text - H.M.S. "Starling" leads the way into Liverpool Docks
88. Full page photo and text - Marshal Grigori Zhukov
89. Double page of photos and text - The Campaign in Burma
90. Full page photo and text - Lieutenant-General Henry Ducan Graham Crerar, D.S.O.
91. Full page illustration and text - Marshal Rotmistrov
92. Double page of photos and text - The Pacific War
93. Full page of photos and text - The Village of "Freefolk" in Hampshire
94. Full page of photos and text - The Eruption of Vesuvius
95. Full page of photos and text - Troops "At Home" in the Anzio Beach-Head
96. Full page of photos and text - H.M. Aircraft Carrier "Victorious" and H.M. Aircraft Carrier "Indomitable"
97. Full page illustration and text - General Malinovsky
98. Double page of photos and text - Allied Raids smash vital Rail Links in Western Europe
99. Full page of photos and text - Barracudas, the new Aircraft which bombed the "Tirpitz"
100. Full page of photos and text - The Campaign in Manipur State
101. Full page of photos and text - The Arakan Front
102. Double page of photos and text - Wartime Restoration of two famous buildings in Iraq, The Abbasid Palace, Baghdad, and the Arch of Ctesiphon
103. Full page of photos and text - The Rt. Hon Sir John Anderson, G.C.B; G.C.S.I;  G.C.I.E; M.P.
104. Double page of photos and text - The Campaign in Manipur
105. Full page colour photo - H.M. The King wearing the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet
106. Double page colour photo - Princess Elizabeth at Home
107. Full page colour photo - H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth, with her pet Welsh Corgi Dog "Crackers"
108. Double page drawing and text - Detailed internal drawings of a Boat of the Rorqual Class
109. Full page drawing and text - General Sir Bernard Montgomery
110. Full page photo and text - The Rt. Hon Jan Christiaan Smuts, C.H.
111. Double page of photos and text - A "Human Torpedo" in action
112. Full page portrait drawing - General Eremenko
113. Double page of photos and text - H.M.C.S. "Prince Robert", Canada's first anti-Aircraft Cruiser
114. Full page of illustrations and text - The Sperry Automatic Computing Gun-Sight
115. Double page drawing and text - The B-26 Mauder, medium Bomber and Torpedo Carrier
116. Full page of photos and text - R.A.F. Beaufighters sink and cripple enemy Escort Ships off Holland
117. Full page drawing and text - The Sperry Bomb-Sight used by U.S. Bombers
118. Full page of photos and text - Extemsive Allied Bomb damage in Berlin
119. Double page drawing of the bombing of a Building in Scheveningsche Weg which contained thousands of documents invaluable to the Enemy.
120. Double page of photos and text - Fighting the Malaria
121. Full page photo and text - Major-General Robert Edward Laycock, D.S.O.
122. Double page of photos and text - Conditions on the Italian Front
123. Double page of photos and text - The Storming of Sevastopol
124. 3 pages of photos and text - The mysterioius birth of the Mexican Volcano of Paricutin
125. Double page of photos and text - First pictures of the advance over the Gustav Line and along the Liri River
126. Double page of photos and text - First Breaches in the Gustav Line: The Gurkha capture of San Angelo and the French Seizure of Mt. Majo
127. Double page drawing and text - The Kittyhawk Bomber in action as a counter-battery weapon
128. Full page of photos and text - What remains of the World-FAmous Monastery of Cassino
129. Double page drawing and text - The Taylorcraft Auster IV, the most versatile winged midget in operation
130. Double page photos and text - On the Italian Front: Pictures of the Allied Advance
131. Double page photo and text - Allied Landing Craft follow Airborne Troops on D-Day
132. Double page of photos and text - Twons made famous in General Alexander's Victorious Advance
133. Double page of photos and text - The Hawker Typhoon Fighter Plane
134. Full page of photos and text - The First Wave of teh Seaborne Assault hits the Normandy Beaches
135. Double page of photos and text - Early Invasion Scenes on the shores of Normandy (D-Day)
136. Double page of photos and text - Scenes from the Battle Zone in Normandy after Airborne Troops enter the action.
137. Double page drawing and text - The Hamilcar Glider: A British Carrier of Airborne Tanks, provides a shock for the Enemy in Normandy
138. Double page of photos and text - Forward into France - The Army presses inland
139. Double page drawing and text - The Invasion of Normandy: Busy scenes afloat and ashore during the first landings on the Beaches.
140. Full page photo and text - Sir Harold Alexander and Lieut-General Allan Harding
141. Double page of photos and text - The Liberation of Rome: scenes as Allied Troops enter the City.
142. Full page photo and text - American Troops entering Carentan after its capture
143. Full page of photos and text - Caen - The fiercely contested City on the Orne
144. Article - Our Campaign in Normandy
145. Double page of photos and text - Incidents in the Battle of Normandy
146. Double page drawing and text - Britain's Horsa Glider - The Mount which carried the Airborne Spearhead of Invasion to Normandy on D-Day
147. Many pages of photos, drawings and text about the D-Day invasion
148. Full page drawing and text - The Flying Bomb: Germnay's latest weapon used against England