The Illustrated London News - January to June 1942

Volume of The Illustrated London News - January to June 1942

756 pages - very heavy book.

Ex-Library with all the usual labels and stamps.

Condition - Hardcover has lots of wear, some tears, edge bumping, cover faded in places.  Internally clean, some tape repairs, some tears not repaired.  Cannot guarantee all pages are in volume.

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SAMPLE OF CONTENTS:
Full page photo and text - Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, K.B.E., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
Many pages of photos and text of News from around the World
Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant
Double page of photos and text - Red Cross Food Parcels being prepared.
Literary Reviews.
Full page article - Hong Kong's Heroic Resistance in face of heavy odds.
Full page of photos and text - The End of Mussolini's Abyssinian Dream: The Fall of Gondar.
Full page of photos and text - Warfare in the Malayan Jungle amid Forests, Swamps and Rivers.
Double page of photos and text - The Libyan Offensive: The important Battle of the Omars.
Full page of photos and text - In the wake of Rommel's retreat: Battered Panzer relics.
Full page photo and text - Axis Prisoners in Cairo
Double page of photos and text - Westminster Abbey.
The World of Science - article
Many pages of adverts throughout the Volume.
Full page of photos and text - Kuala Lumpar: The Heart of Malaya and Capital of Selangor.
Full page of photos and text - The Philippine Islands, Corregidor, The Island Fortress, and Manila.
Article - The Great World War - The Influence of the Far Eastern Front.
Full page of photos and text - China's "Life-Line": Views on the famous Burma Road.
Full page of photos and text - The first successful Jet-Propelled (Airscrewless) Aeroplane. The Italian Caproni-Campini.
Double page illustration and text - Smashed and abandoned German Guns and Vehicles after the Rout at Klin.
Article and photos - The Russian Advance
Double page drawing and text - The Commando raid on Vaagso.
2 x pages of photos and text - The Commando raid on Vaagso
Books of the Day.
Full page photo and text - General Erwin Rommel and troops near Adjedabia.
Double page illustration and text - British and American Fighting Vehicles: Some of the Wheel and Track Vehicles in the Front Line.
Full page of photos and text - Corregidor, the Mystery Fortress.
Article - Defence of our Aerodromes by Cyril Falls
Full page of photos and text - Perak, the World's Chief Tin Centre, seized by Japan.
Full page of photos and text - Cyrenaica: scenes ancient and modern in the recovered area.
Double page of photos and text - The hammer blows on General Rommel's routed Army.
Full page of photos and text - Rommel's "Secret Weapon" in the Battle of the Libyan Desert - Heavy Mobile Gun adapted onto a Medium Tank.
Double page drawing and text - The Lofoten Raid: A Hooded Commando advancing to attack their objective - Sorvargen Lighthouse.
Double page of photos and text - Russia sweeps on! Tula, where the tide of Battle turned and the German advance became a rout.
Article - Life of Walter Richard Sickert
Full page of photos - Great Waste-Paper Drive:  more salvage needed for munitions.
Full page picture and text - Will Adams - the first Englishman to enter and settle in Japan.
Full page photo and text - Generals Sir Archibald Wavell and Claude Auchinleck
Article and photos - China's future Army Leaders - Cadet Training.
Full page of photos and text - Singapore's last defence line: The Straits and Causeway.
Full page of illustrations and text - Panzer-Strafting from the Air: Russia's answer to the Blitzkrieg.
Article - The Fight for Singapore by Cyril Falls
Full page of photos and text - Gurkhas and Kukris: The Japanese dread in the Malayan Jungle
Full page of photos and text - Portable Landing-Fields for Aircraft: The U.S. "Marston Strip".
Double page drawing and text - An Avro "Manchester" pulverising the Dockyards at Brest.
Double page of photos and text - Attack and Counter Attack in the Desert:  Eastern Libya cleared of all the Axis Troops.
Full page drawing and text - Britain's wonderful Field Gun: The 25-Pounder in action.
Double page of drawings and text - The Bristol of to-day: An Artist in the much-bombed City of Historic Memories and Mediaeval Buildings.
Full page photo and text - General Gregory Zhukov
Double page of photos and text - The Birth of a Tank:  British Workers forge mighty Weapons.
Full page of photos and text - Rabaul - threat to Australia
Full page of photos and text - Our new Battleship "Duke of York"
Full page illustration and text - Batan Peninsula, Philippines.
2 x pages of photos and text - Bardia recaptured
Full page of photos and text - The "Flying Wing": A revolutionary Aeroplane on Test.
Full page illustration - War Artist immortalises U-Boat captured by Bomber.
Full page of photos and text - The Saga of a "Sunderland": An Air, Sea and Desert Drama.
Full page of photos and text - The War in the Far East: Burma and Amboina Island.
Double page of photos and text - The War in Malaya
Double page of drawings and text - Incidents in the Battle of Macassar Strait.
Full page of illustrations and text - Jet Propulsion for Aircraft: The Caproni-Campini Aeroplane
Full page of photos and text - Britain's 25-pounder Gun-Howitzer with an Australian Crew
Full page photo and text - (Acting) Brigadier John Charles Campbell, D.S.O., M.C., Royal Horse Artillery awarded a V.C.
Full page of photos and text - Newcastle, New Brunswick, the home town of Lord Beaverbrook.
Full page photo and text - Lord Beaverbrook
Full page of photos and text - Singapore Island: Rangoon, the gateway to the Burma Road.
Double page of illustrations - Fire Breaks out in the 83,000 ton "Normandie" while being refitted in New York Harbour.
Full page photo and text - Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek.
Full page illustration and text - The Davis Non-Recoil Gun
Full page of photos and text - Forts in enemy hands which hampered British Transport - Bardia and Halfaya.
Full page of photos and text - Sollum, where the Soldiers of South Africa made history.
Many pages of photos and text - The Campaign in Libya.
Full page of photos and text - France's last remaining Colony in North America: St. Pierre.
2 x pages of photos and text - Ibilao Warriors and the Island of Luzon
2 pages of drawings and text - Deeds of Gallantry in the Sea and Air fight in the English Channel.
Full page of photos and text - The Dramatic escape of teh Three German Warships from Brest.
Double fold out illustration - Warfare on Wheels: Mechanised and Mobile Units of the Modern British Army.
Article - The Waxwing Bird
Double page of photos and text - Pearl Barbour during and after the "date which will live in infamy"
Double page of photos and text - Port Darwin: The first place on the Australian mainland to be bombed.
Double page of photos and text - Exclusive first pictures of the ruthless Japanese Air Attack on Hong Kong on Dec 8, 1941
Full page of photos and text - Bali, the "Isle of Beauty"
Full page photo and text - Vivid Prehistoric Frescoes discovered near Montignac
Full page photos and text - Major General Gordon Bennett
Double page illustration - Java invaded by Japanese.
Double page of photos and text - The "Bruneval" Tip and Run raid.
Full page of photos and text - The "Incredible" MacArthur - The U.S. General
Full page of photos and text - Scenes from the Battlefront at Changsha
Full page photo and text - "Stirlings" Bomber Aircraft
Full page of photos and text - The Pacific Imbroglio: Famous sites in Japan's War offensive.
Double page of photos and text - Australia's Outer Bastion of Defence: New Guinea and its Primitive Folk.
Full page of photos and text - R.A.F. daylight raid on Poissy Factory: Lorries for Germany bombed.
Full page photo and text - R.A.F. smash the Renault Paris Factory:  Tank assembly section wrecked.
Full page of photos and text - The V.C. presented to Major-General "Jock" Campbell
Double page of photos and text - In Japanese hands: Java's Capital, Batavia.
Double page illustration and text - The Complicated Anatomy of the largest bird of obstruction: An "X-Ray" picture of the "Stirling".
Full page photo and text - Sir Stafford Cripps, P.C., K.C., M.P.
Full page of photos and text - Escaped Hong Kong's horrors:  Admiral Chanchak and some British
Full page of illustrations and text - Japanese Warships: Design
Double page of photos and text - The Battle of the Java Sea: Photos of the following Warships - U.S. Destroyer "Hope";  H.M.S. "Electra";  Destoryer "Jupiter";  H.M.S."Encounter";  H.M.S. "Stronghold";  Dutch Cruiser "De Ruyter";  Dutch Cruiser "Java";  U.S. Cruiser "Houston";  H.M.S. Sloop "Yarra";  H.M.S. "Exeter";  H.M.A.S. "Perth".
Small portrait photos of:  Miss E M B Dyson;  Miss Gwendoline Colthorpe;  Miss Muriel Whiteley;  Miss Phyllis Harrop.
Double page of photos and text - Japan's obstacle in Queensland: The Coral Great Barrier Reef.
Full page photo and text - General Douglas MacArthur
Full page photo and text - Hoisting the morning "Colours" on Admiral Cunningham's Flagship "Queen Elizabeth".
Full page of photos and text - A new Bow for the U.S.S. "Shaw"
Full page of photos and text - Chinese Pilots in the making.
Double page of drawings and text - The Heroic Action against hopeless odds:  some dramatic incidents in the Naval Battle of the Java Sea.
Article - Anzacs into Battle
Full page of illustrations and text - German Mosquito Craft which wage incessant warfare.
Full page of illustrations of further portraits from a British Prisoner of War in Oflag IVc.  Portraits drew by Lieut J F Watton.
Full page of drawings and text - The Malta Convoy gets through.
Small photos of - Rear-Admiral P L Vian;  The Italian Battleship "Littorio"
Full page of illustrations and text - The daring operational attack on St. Nazaire's big Dry Dock.
Full page of photos and text - R.A.F. Daylight raids on France: Le Trait and Le Havre bombed.
Many pages of drawings,  photos and text - Subterranean War Factory in a Quarry.
Double page of illustrations and text - The deadliest Weapon in Naval Warfare: The Torpedo.
Full page article and photos - Pigmy Aborigines of the Andaman Isles.
Full page of photos and text - Malta: The most-bombed Isle in the British Empire.
Full page of photos and text - The "Tirpitz" located under a Norwegian Cliff in AAS Fjord.
Article - Burma and Japan
Full page of photos, diagrams and text - St. Nazaire Lock Gates: details of their construction.
Double page drawing - The dramatic attack on St. Nazaire: H.M.S. "Campbeltown" with guns blazing, speeding towards the huge dock gates.
Full page of illustrations and text - R.A.F. American Fighters: The "Airacobra" and the "Tomahawk".
Small portrait photos of:  General Sir William Dobbie;  Major-Gen D M W Beak, V.C.;  Vice Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham;  Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Lloyd.
Full page of photos and text - The Lie Direct to Dr. Goebbels:  R.A.F. Photographic evidence.
Double page of actual photo's of Admiral Vian's bold action against Italian Warships off Malta.
Full page of sketches - The Men of Vichy: Marshal Petain, Darlan and the Ministerial Council, sketched from life.
Full page of photos and text - General Ritchie's mobile headquarters in the Desert.
Double page drawing and text - H.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth". Admiral Cunningham's Flagship in the Mediterranean.
Full page of photos and text - The Zaporozhe Dam: Germans struggle to repair the damage.
Full page of photos and text - Minbu Mud Volcanoes of Burma.
Small portrait photos - Sqn. Lr J D Nettleton;  Ft.Lt. R R Sandford;  Sqn. Lr. J S Sherwood, D.F.C.;  Private Nora Caveney;  Rifleman John Beeley;  Lieut.Colonel A E Cumming;  Lieut.Colonel C G W Anderson.
Double page drawing - A Handley Page "Halifax" landing at Dawn after a raid.
Photo of the French Submarine "Surcouf"
Double page article - The potential danger of Malaria carrying Mosquitoes.
Full page of photos and text - Rostock smashed by the R.A.F.
Full page of photos and text - The King and Queen visit a Canadian Armoured Division.
Double page of photos and text - H.M.S. "Illustrious" at Sea again:  American Fighter Planes serving with a famous British Aircraft-Carrier.
Double page of illustrations - The Mechanism behind the dials on Aeroplanes.
Small photo of the Funeral of Lieut-Commander E Esmonde, V.C.
Full page of photos and text about Madagascar.
Double page drawing and text - The "Beaufighter" - a long-range Fighter with terrific fire power.
Full page of illustrations and text - Luftwaffe developments - Germany's new Fighters and Bombers.
Full page colour photo of His Majesty King George VI.
Double page of colour photos of the Royal Family.
Full page of photos and text - Convoy drama in the Mediterranean - Enemy Bomb Freighter.
Full page of photos and text - The Battle of the Coral Sea:  Japanese invaders repulsed.
Full page photo and text - Marshal Semen Timoshenko, The Russian Commander.
Double page drawing and text - Madagascar: Daringly planned operations lead to the surrender of Port Diego Suarez in 48 hours. 
Full page of photos and text - Martinique's Plight.
Full page illustrations and text - The new German Blohm and Voss "141"
Article - Isabel Burton
Full page photo and text - The 60 Ton M-1 Tank of the United States
Small portrait drawing - Squadron Leader J D Nettleton, V.C.
Full page of photos and text - The Kharkov Battlefield
Double page fold out illustration and text - The Red Air Force, using "Stormoviks" and other fast Flying Tank Busters bombing the German Tanks.
Full page illustration - Bath;s Assembly Rooms: Gutted in a "Baedeker" Raid.
Full page illustration - Anti-Tank Mines
3 x pages of photos and text - The making of a "Halifax" Bomber.
Full page photo and text - Air Marshal A T Harris
Full page of photos and text - U.S. Fighter-Bombers: Curtiss "Kittihawks" in the Desert Battle.
Full page of photos and text - Soldiers of Free France form the "Phantom" Garrison of Bir Hakeim.
Article - The Battle in Libya
Double page illustration - Bomber Command blazing the Trail!  The Royal Air Force attack on Essen and the Ruhr Valley.
Full page of photos and text - The British Occupation of Madagascar: First Action Pictures.
Full page of photos and text - After the Great Coral Sea Victory the U.S.S. "Lexington" blows up.
Double page of photos and text - The Battle of the Libyan Desert.
Full page of photos and text - M. Molotov's Historic Flight
Full page of illustrations and text - The U.S. Aleutian Isles:  Japanese seizure of Attu and Kiska.
Full page of photos and text - The F.W. "190":  The latest German Single-Seater Fighter Aircraft.