The Illustrated London News - July to December 1945

Volume of The Illustrated London News - July to December 1945

Ex-Library with all the usual stamps and labels

728 pages - Very Heavy Book.

Condition - Hardcover shows signs of wear, tight binding.  Internally pagse fairly clean, some tiny tears.  We cannot guarantee all pages are in the volume.

SAMPLE CONTENTS:
4 x pages of photos and article about the attack on the American Aircraft Carrier "Bunker-Hill" in the Pacific.
Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant (throughout the volume)
Literary Reviews
Full page of drawings and text - Diagrammatic Drawings illustrating Maritime Inventions by the Germans during the War
Full page of drawings and text - Diagrammatic Drawings showing the exploitation by the German Army of Scientific and Technical Inventions
Full page of drawings and text - Methods and Machines exploited by the Germans in the Air War.
Full page of photos and text - The Final Conquest of Okinawa.
Full page of photos and text - The Pacific War: Damaged Warships
Article - First Impressions of Occupied Germany
Small Photos and text - List of V.C. Awards:  Naik Agansing Rai;  Cpl Sefanaia Sukanaivalu;  Capt John Niel Randle;  Private Ernest A Smith;  Cpl John W Harper;  Sgt George H Eardley;  Private Richard H Burton;  Lieut John H Grayburn;  Capt Lionel E Queripel;  Capt John Henry Brunt;  Sepoy Bhandari Ram;  Flt-Sgt George Thompson;  Lce-Cpl Henry Harden;  Fusilier Dennis Donnini;  Sq.Lr Robert A M Palmer;  Lieut G A Knowland;  Private James Stokes;  Capt Edwin Swales;  Jemadar Parkash Singh;  Lt William Basil Weston;  Cpl. Thomas Peck Hunter;  Sepoy Namdeo Jadhao;  Maj Frederick A Tilston;  Sgt Aubrey Cosens;  Havildar Umrao Singh;  Capt. Ian Oswald Liddell;  Lieut-Col A C Newman;  Sgt. Thomas F Durrant.
Photos of News from around the World throughout the Volume.
Full page of photos and text - The Question of King Leopold's Return: Belgium's Dilemma
Full page photo and text - Mr J F Byrnes - U.S. Secretary of State
Full page photo and text - Mr Anthony Eden
Double page of photos and text - The Art Collections "Purchased" by Hitler
Full page of photos and text - The Destruction of Germany's Capital: famous ruined sites in Berlin
Double page of drawings and text - How a great Prisoner-of-War Escape was planned by R.A.F. Officers and the Underground Workings of the Famous Tunnel at Stalag Luft III.
Full page of photos and text - The Australian Landings in Borneo: Veterans of Tobruk
1/2 page of photos and text - The End of H.M.S. "Barham"
Article - The Future of the British Army
Full page of photos and text - Berlin: The Entry of British Troops
Double page photo and text - The Journey's End - The Union Jack unfurled over the Capital of the Reich (Berlin)
Full page of photos and text - Berlin: First Impressions which greeted the British Troops.
Full page of photos and text - Where Hitler Died?? Scenes in the Berlin Chancellery
Full page of photos and text - The Historic Visit of their Majesties to the Isle of Man
Full page of photos and text - Japanese Long-Range Paper-Balloon Bombs aimed at North America.
Full page of photos and text - Scars of War in Budapest
Full page photo and text - The Famous Sphinx Gate of the Hittite Period at Alaca Huyuk
Full page photo and text - Mr T V Soong: Chinese Prime Minster
Full page of aerial photos and text - The City of Berlin - Destroyed
Double page drawing and text - David and Goliath:  The action that earned a V.C., H.M.S. "Glowworm" ramming the "Admiral Hipper"
Full page of photos and text - Potsdam: The Venue of the latest "Big Three" Conference.
1/2 page of photos and text - The Gloster Meteor
Article and photos -A Great Discovery - Bronze Age in Anatolia by Dr Hamit Zubeyr Kosay.
Full page of photos and text - The Royal Visit to Ulster
Double page of drawings and text - A sectional drawing showing the Japanese "Baka" or "Flying Fool", The Piloted Flying Bomb, how it is carried, launched and then directed. "Suicide Tactic"
3 x full pages of photos and text - Churchill visits Berlin.
Article and photos - Development of the Assault on Japan by Cyril Falls.
Full page of photos and text - Maps showing the burned-out areas of Factory Cities.
Full page of photos and text - The War in the Pacific - The Fighting for Balikpapan.
Full page of photos and text - The Only Colony of Gannets in England and Wales - Grassholm.
Full page of photos and text - This is the House that B.A.C. built - in 3.5 hours.
Double page of photos and text - The Pyramid of Tlahuizcalpanteuctli: Toltec remains discovered at Tula, near Mexico City
Full page of photos and text - The Trial of Marshal Petain: Views of the crowded Courtroom.
Full page photo and text - Mr C R Attlee
Full page of small portrait photos of the Women Members in the new Parliament:  Miss E Wilkinson;  Mrs L Middleton;  Lady Megan Lloyd-George;  Dr Edith Summerskill;  Mrs J L Adamson;  Miss J Lee;  Miss A Bacon;  Lady Noel Buxton;  Mrs J Mann;  Mrs F Paton;  Mrs L Manning;  Mrs C M Shaw;  Viscountess Davidson;  Mrs B A Castle;  Mrs M Ridealgh;  Mrs E M Braddock;  Miss M Herbison;  Mrs M W Nichol;  Mrs C S Ganley;  Mrs E A Wills;  Miss G M Colman;  Mrs B Ayrton-Gould;  Mrs F Corbett
Full page of photos and text - Mr Attlee at Buckingham Palace and Potsdam
Full page of photos and text - The U.S. Mitchell Bomber crashing into the Empire State Building.
Full page photo and text - The Last Gunfire in Berlin by the Royal Horse Artillery.
Full page photos and text - U.S. Battleships on their way to bombard Japanese Installations.  "New Jersey";  "Washington";  "North Carolina";  "South Dakota".
Full page photo and text - New Governor-General of Canada - Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander with Lady Alexander and their youngest child, Brian.
Full page of photos and text - German piloted Torpedoes discovered on a Danish Island.
Full page of photos and text - An historic meeting afloat:  The King and President Truman.
Full page of drawings and text - Campaigning in Burma
Full page of photos and text - New British H.Q., Vienna: Schonbrunn, Summer Palace of the Emperors.
Full page of photos and text - Hitler's Legacy - an acute food shortage in Berlin.
3 full pages of drawings, photos and text - The Earliest Chapter in the story of Mesopotamia.
Full page photo and text - M Molotov - Russia's Comissar for Foreign Affairs
Article - Atomic Boms and Russian Intervention.
Full page photo and text - The huge Mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke and dust that followed the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese port of Nagasaki.
Double page of photos and text - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The first Cities struck by Atomic Bombs.
Article - How the Atom is split.
Full page of small portrait photos - Some Men who made the Atomic Bomb possible:  Sir George Paget Thomson;   Sir John Anderson;  Lord Cherwell;  Sir Henry Dale;  Lord Riverdale;  Dr Roland Slade;  Professor J D Cockcroft;  Dr E O Lawrence;  Professor Walter N Haworth;  Sir Charles G Darwin;  Sir James Chadwick;  Professor M L E Oliphant;  Professor Norman Feather;  Dr Lize Meitner;  Professor Nields H Bohr;  Dr Robert Oppenheimer;  Dr Enrico Fermi;  Dr Franz E Simon;  Sir Edward Appleton
Full page of photos and text - Eldorado: The World's greatest source of Uranium.
Many pages of photos and text - V.J. celebrations in London
Full page of small portrait photos of the British and Empire Leaders who brought us Victory over Japan - Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser;  Vice-Admiral Sir P Vian;  Vice-Admiral Sir B Rawlings;  Lieut-Gen Sir M Stopford;  Air Marshal Sir H Lloyd;  Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten;  Lieut-Gen Sir Oliver Leese;  Lieut-Gen Sir W Slim;  General Sir Thomas Blamey;  Mr J B Chifley;  Mr H V Evatt;  Mr Peter Fraser.
Full page of small portrait photos of the Japanese Leaders and others - General Tojo; Lieut-Gen Yasuji Okamura;  Hirohito, Emperor of Japan;  Prince Naruhiko Higashukini;  Admiral Suzuki;  Major-Gen Korechika Anami;  Vice-Admiral Takijiro Onishi;  Lieut Gen Kimura;  F M Count Terauchi;  General Itagaki;  Mao Tse-Tung;  Mr T V Soong;  Chen Kung Po;  Gernalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek;  Marshal Vasilevsky.
Full page of small portrait photos of U.S. Service Leaders involved with the Japanese Surrender - Admiral Chester W Nimitz;  Admiral W F Halsey;  Vice-Admiral John S MacCain;  Vice-Admiral Marc A Mitscher;  General J W Stilwell;  General Douglas MacArthur;  General C A Spaatz;  Lieut-General James H Doolittle;  Lieut-Gen Richard K Sutherland;  Lieut-Gen Albert C Wedemeyer;  Major-Gen Curtis E Lemay;  Rear-Admiral Forrest Sherman.
Full page photo and text - The U.S. Battleship "Missouri".
Double page illustration and text - Our Gallant Little Minesweepers: A Branch of the Royal Navy for which the War is not yet at an end.
Full page photo and text - Mr L T Crowley
Double page drawing and text - A Barracuda Bomber, on operations, landing on the Flight-Deck of H.M. Aircraft Carrier "Colossus" in Stormy Weather.
Full page photos and text - Lt.Gen Numata and Rear-Admiral Chudo - The Japanese Surrender of Burma and Malaya.
Full page of photos and text - Japan's Tea Ceremony
Full page photo and text - General Douglas MacArthur and President Osmena
Full page of small portrait photos of the Signatories and Witnesses of the Japanese Surrender - Air Vice-Marshal L M Isitt;  Lieut-General J M Wainwright;  Lieut-General A E Percival;  Vice-Admiral C F L Helfrich;  Admiral Chester Nimitz;  Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser;  General Sir Thomas Blamey;  General Hsu Yung-Chang; Mr Mamoru Shigemitsu;  General Yoshijiro Umezu;  General Leclerc
Full page of photos and text - How the Eskimo gets over the Housing Problem
Full page of photos and text - A New Zealand Re-Housing Scheme:  Homes built by Ex-Servicemen.
Full page photo and text - Lieut-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C. 
Full page of photos and text - Britain's "Frog-Men"; A Hush-Hush Band of Specialists who wrecked German Defences.
Full page of photos and text - Scenes at U.S.s first Landings in Japan on Atsugi Airfield.
Full page of photos and text - Incidents of the Surrender Ceremony on the U.S.S. "Missouri".
Full page of drawings and text - Introducing Britain's "Frog-Men": Diving Wreckers
Full page of photos and text - German "Squirt" Planes:  Famous Jet and Rocket Driven Aircraft.
Double page of drawings and text - Military Radar:  How this vital secret Weapon helped the Land Forces to achieve Final Victory.
Many pages of Photos from around the World
Full page photo and text - A German V-2 Rocket-Bomb exhibited in Trafalgar Square.
Double page of photos and text - Surrender scenes in Japan
Full page of photos and text - The Surrender at Singapore of Japanese Forces.
Full page of photos and text - The Battle of Britain Anniversary.
Full page of photos and text - The De Havilland Vampire: Britain's latest Jet Propelled Fighter
Double page drawing and text - The Interior of an "X" Craft: H.M.S. "Excelsior"
Full page aerial photo and text - H.M. Fleet Aircraft Carrier "Implacable" with aircraft and ship's company lining the flight deck.
Full page of drawings and text - Floating landing-strips for Aircraft.
Double page of photos and text - Ladybower Lake:  The Derwent Valley Villages and Buildings submerged.
Article - The Great Lakes
Full page photo and text - Lord Halifax
Article - Aftermath of War
Full page drawing and text - "Towerfield", near Biggin Hill, whence the Battle of Britain was directed.
Double page drawing - The deserted "Ops" room, Fighter Command, at Biggin Hill, Kent
An aerial photo of the remnants of the Japanese Navy in Kure Bay.
Double page of photos and text - The Trial at Luneberg of Kramer and 44 Gaolers of the Murder Camps of Belsen and Auschwitz.
1/2 page of photos and text - The Blackburn Firebrand Aeroplane
Full page of photos and text - Trieste - A bone of Contention - ThePort of the Adriatic.
Small portrait photo - Captain C H Upham, N.Z. Military Forces; V.C. 
Full page of photos and text - The Perth-Euston Express Disaster at Bourne End
Double page of photos and text - The re-Birth of Arnhem
Full page of drawings and text - Making Ingots from the Aluminium Metal Scrap of wrecked Planes
Full page of drawings and text - The Acoustic Shell:  Britain's Ace Killer of Flying Bombs.
Full page of 4 portrait drawings of Women who served on Western Fronts - Barbara B Stimson, M..B.E., a Major in the R.A.M.C.;   Lady Tedder, a well-known W.A.A.F.;  Junior Commander Penelope Otto, M.B.E., a member of the A.T.S.;  Signorina Anna Lelli, of Rome.
Full page drawing of Froken Eva Christiansen, who published a weekly Newspaper in Oslo.
Full page photo and text - The Sailing Barque "Pamir", New Zealand
Full page of photos and text - Scenes in liberated Singapore
Full page of photos and text - The trial of Pierre Laval, former Prime Minister of the Vichy Government.
Full page article and photos - The Baptismal Font of St. Sophia, Istanbul
Full page drawing and text - The 15 mile Pilgrim's Way from Taian to the Tip of tai Shan
Full page of photos and text - Tai Shan, most revered of the five Sacred Mountains of China.
Full page of photos and text - The Birthplace of the Third Reich - Nuremberg.
Full page of photos and text - The Meteor and two possible challengers for the World Speed Record.
Full page of photos and text - Firing a British-built V2 Rocket Bomb.
Double page drawing and text - A Panorama of Portsmouth Harbour
Double page of photos and text - Submerged Walcheren Island and the use of "Mulberry" equipment.
Full page of small portrait photos of those charged with "War Crimes" at Nuremberg - Hermann Wilhelm Goring;  Rudolf hess;  Joachim Von Ribbentrop;  Robert Ley;  Wilhelm Keitel;  Ernst Kaltenbrunner;  Alfred Rosenberg;  Hans Frank;  Wilhelm Frick;  Julius Streicher;  Walter Funk;  Hjalmar Schacht;  Gustav Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach;  Karl Donitz;  Erich Raeder; Bladur Von Schirach;  Fritz Sauckel;  Alfred Jodl;  Martin Bormann;  Franz Von Papen;  Artur Seyss-Inquart;  Albert Speer;  Constantin Von Neurath;  Hans Fritzsche
Full page drawing and article - Changi Criminal Jail
Full page of photos and text - Saigon:  Scene of recent fighting with Annamite Nationalists.
Double page of photos and text - The unrest in Java, where Britain is retoring order.
Full page of photos and article - Merchant Aircraft-Carriers used in the Battle of the Atlantic - The "Empire Macalpine" and the "Empire Mackendrick"
Double page of photos and article - The Countryside threatened by the much discussed Tummel-Garry Hydro-Electric Project.
Full page of photos and text - Nemesis of the Herrenvolk, The Punishment of a defeated Nation.
Full page article and photos - Landmarks of Geological History.
Fulll page drawing and text - An eerie torchlight exploration of the Gloomy Bowels of the German Battleship "Tirpitz", lying upside down in her watery grave in Tromso Fjord, Norway.
Full page of photos and text - Life in a British Women's Japanese Internment Camp at Singapore.
Full page of photos and text - The extent of the War Damage to Vienna's Famous Cathedral.
Full page of photos and text - Scenes during the three-day successful revolution in Venezuela.
The U.S. Navy celebrating Pacific Triumphs in New York Harbour.
Full page of illustrations and text - Rockets and Flying Bombs as Seaborne Weapons of Future Navies
Full page photo and text - Dr Soekarno of Java
3 x full page of photos and text - Mr Churchill's underground Home
Full page of photos and text - Drawing the Dragon's Teeth;  The Navy demolish a Mine.
Double page drawing and text - Britain's "Brabazon I" Airliner, designed to carry 72 long-distance passengers.
1/2 page of photos and text - The opening of "Canada Walk"
Article with photos - H.M.S. "Aurora"
Full page of photos - Robot machines which discover German War Criminals (The "Crowcass" Files)
Double page drawing and text (The Silver Phantom) - H.M.A. "Aurora"
Full page of photos and text - The Air Speed Record: The Meteors and their Pilots.
Double page of photos and text - The Duck-Billed Platypus.
Full page of photos and text - Our Troops in Java
Article - Aftermath of War:  Record of the Fourth Indian Division
1/4 page portrait drawings of 4 Indian V.C.'s - Naik Nand Singh, V.V., 11th Sikh Regiment;  Havildar (now Jemadar) Gaje Ghale, V.C., 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles;  Major Premindra Singh Bhagat, V.C., 21st Bombay Sappers;  Havildar (now Jemadar) Parkash Singh, V.C., 8th Punjab Regiment.
Full page of photos and text - Unrest of Trieste and the Middle East
Double page of drawings - Georgian Architecture in Hove and Brighton
Full page of photos and text - Goring in the Dock.
Double page of photos and text - The Nuremberg Trial
Full page of photos and text - Jerusalem
Full page of photos and text - Ge. Auchinleck, C-in-C, in India, honoured by the King of Nepal in the Country of the Gurkhas.
Full page of photos and text - A Flat in Culzean Castle gifted to General Eisenhower.
Full page drawing and text - H.M.S. "Loch Shin" towing the first of 110 U-Boats to be scuttled 100 miles off the Coast of Northern Ireland.
Full page of photos and text - The Emperor of Japan informs his ancestors that the War is ended.
Full page of photos and text - A Whaling Expedition to the Antartic
Double page drawing and text - Surrendered U-Boats making their last Voyage in Tow.
Full page of photos of events in Surabaya and Batavia
Many pages of drawings from the Nuremberg Trial.
Full page article and photos - Septimius Severus: The Reconstruction of a Remarkable Statue.
Full page with text - Aerial View of Berlin showing the ruins of the Reichstag and the shells of gutted buildings.
Full page of photos and text - Japanese Warships in their graves.
Full page of photos and text - The price of War in once-proud Nuremberg.
Small portrait image - The First Indian Sepoy to win the V.C. in the late War:  Sepoy Kamal Ram, V.C., of the 3rd-8th Punjabi Regiment.
Double page drawing and text - The dramatic story of an attack which sank the Japanese Cruiser "Takao" at Singapore: The Submarine Crew carrying through their daring task under continuous difficulties.
Full page of illustrations and text - The official opening of the New Waterloo Bridge.
Double page of photos and text - The conversion process of aluminium from Warplanes turned back into Saucepans etc.
Full page of photos and text - H.M.S. "Atlantic Isle" scenes on Tristan Da Cunha.
Full page photo and text - H.R.H. The Amir Faisal Ibn Azziz
Double page drawing: The last moments: H.M.S. "Exeter" rolls over amidst bursting shells from Japanese Heavy Cruisers and Destroyers.
Double page of photos and text - The Choir School, Canterbury Cathedral.