The Illustrated London News - July to December 1939

Volume of The Illustrated London News - July to December 1939.

980 pages - Very heavy book.

Ex-Library with all the usual labels and stamps

Condition - Hardcover has signs of wear and tear, binding tight. internally clean, some small tears, some have been repaired.  Cannot guarantee all pages are in volume.  Pages 111 to 114 missing.

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SAMPLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Many pages of adverts throughout the Volume.
2. Royalty news throughout the Volume
3. Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant
4. 1/2 page of photos and text - The Barbican Fire.
5. News from around the World
6. Full page colour picture and text - A T'Ang Figure
7. Double page colour picture - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
8. Full page colour advert for Guiness
9. Double page of small portrait photos - Wimbledon Players:  R L Riggs (U.S.);  H W Austin (G.B.);  D. McNeil (U.S.);  F Puncec (Yugoslavia);  Mme R Matheiu (France);  Fru S Sperling (Sweden);  Miss Helen Jacobs (U.S.);  Miss Alice Marble (U.S.);  Mlle J Jedrzejowska (Poland);  Miss K E Stammers (G.B.);  Miss R M Hardwick (G.B.);  Mrs S P Fabyan (U.S.);  I Tloczynski (Poland);  R Menzel (Germany);  E T Cooke (U.S.);  H Henkel (Germany)
10. Article - The World of Theatre by Ivor Brown
11. Full page of photos and text - The Discovery of the first definite footprints of a Sauropod.
12. Article - The Charm of Music by Francis Toye
13. Article - A Page for Collectors by Frank Davis
14. Article - The Chronicle of the Car by H Thornton Rutter
15. Pages of Photos and text - The Royal Review of National Defence Services in Hyde Park.
16. Double page of photos and text - Inside the American Airways' Giant Flying Boat.
17. Article - The World of Science
18. Article and photos - The Primitive Angami Nagas
19. Full page of photos and text - Training the Fleet Air Arm at Lee-oon-Solent - now H.M.S. "Daedalus"
20. Article - The World of the Cinema by Michael Orme
21. Double page of photos and text - Danzig - The most discussed Town in Europe:  Nazi Rallies, and Relics of the one-time Polish Protectorate.
22. Article - Books of the Day by Charles E Byles
23. Full page of photos and text - The Best-Preserved Neanderthal Skull - The "Man of Mount Circeo"
24. Ladies Fashion Page.
25. Full page photo and text - The "Wellington" long range Bombers at the Brussels Military Flying Display.
26. Many pages about the "Thetis"
27. Full page article - Fishing methods used by the Aborigines of Arnhem Land
28. Article - An Australian Commentary 
29. Double page of photos and text - The Impreial Forces of France on Parade - Bastille Day.
30. Full page of photos and text - Incidents of the Japanese blockade of the Tientsin Concessions.
31. Double page of photos and text - Horse Racing at Shanghai
32. Double page of photos and text - The Nelson-Ward Collection
33. Full page of photos and text - Rebuilt and looking like a different Ship: "Renown" comparisons.
34. Full page colour advert - Johnnie Walker
35. Article - Athens revealed as a settlement of great importance, even before the Trojan War.
36. Full page of photos and text - The opening of an exhibition in Paris commemorating the French Revolution.
37. Double pages of photos and text - The Culture Day Parade in the Red Square, Moscow.
38. Double page of photos and text - The Netherlands secures her frontiers from sudden attack.
39. Double page of photos and text - The Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition
40. Full page of photos and text - Failures in Submarine Salvage:  The "Squalus" and the "Thetis"
41. Double page of illustrations and text - To prevent a repetition of the "Thetis" disaster:  New safety devices recommended for Submarines.
42. Full page of photos and text - The Clumsy apparatus of the past in Photography.
43. Full page of photos and article - Delphi yields new treasures.
44. Double page of photos and article - Aboard a British Warship at Sea
45. Double page of illustrations and article - Refuelling Aloft - Enabling Transatlantic Flying-Boats to carry a much increased pay-load.
46. Double page of photos and text - German Submarine Rescue Equipment:  A "Davis Escape Apparatus", and a pneumatic raft.
47. Full page of photos and text - In the East:  The Craigie-Arita Talks
48. Double page of photos and text - The formidable Fleet Britain is manning - Ships of the Reserve.
49. Full page of photos and text - Irish Outrages in England in 1939:  I.R.A. Bomb-Explosions.
50. Full page article and photos - Excavating Ezion-Geber
51. Full page photo and text - Mr H S Vanderbilt's wonderful "Vim" at Cowes Week.
52. Full page of photos and text - The "Axis" rapid movement strategy in the Italian manoeuvres.
53. Full page of photos and text - St. Paul's endangered in a violent explosion which shook the City.
54. Full page of photos and text - Chinese Fight with Japanese Arms:  Guerilla Warfare in the North.
55. Double page of photos and article - Fighting the Japanese in North China.
56. Full page of photos and text - The Ship-Grave of an Anglo-Saxon King found in Suffolk:  The Sutton Hoo Tumulus
57. Full page colour photo and text - Heeling over to Port at a speed of Twenty Knots (H.M.S. "Wren")
58. Full page colour photo and text - Anti Aircraft Gunnery Exercises in H.M.S. "Nelson"
59. Full page photo and text - His Majesty taking the salute in the "Effingham", Flagship of the Reserve Fleet at Weymouth Bay.
60. Double page photo and text - The Reserve Fleet in Weymouth Bay
61. Double page of photos and text - Danzig in the Shadow of the Nazi Swastika
62. Double page of photos and text - The Mildjingi Tribe in Australia
63. Double page of photos and text - The finds at the Ship-Grave at Sutton Hoo.
64. Article and photos - Is "Lightning War" possible in Europe?
65. Full page article and photos - Amazing Discoveries in a Mycenaean Queen's Tomb in  the Peloponnese.
66. Double page of photos and text - The Treasures of Dendra
67. Full page of photos and text - Founding a "Tower of Silence": A rite with Nails and Thread (Parsi)
68. Many pages - Poland as a Military Power.
69. Double page of photos and article - Crusader Castles in the Hatay.
70. Full page of photos and text - The Danzig Nazi HEIMWEHR and its Leader.
71. Full page of photos and text - The Siegfried Line and its Air Defence
72. Article - Some thoughts on Paganini
73. Full page advert for Holidays in South Africa
74. Full page of photos and text - Anti-Aircraft Training
75. Double page of photos and text - The Modern British Army
76. Double page of drawings and text - The Might of the Royal Air Force
77. Double page of photos and text - The French Army
78. Full page of portrait photos - General Gamelin;  General George;  General Vuillemin;  Amiral De La Flotte Darlan
79. Full page of illustrations - Machines of the French Air Force
80. Double page of photos and text - Types of Aircraft in the German Air Force
81. Full page of photos and text - Herr Hitler, and his Chiefs of Staff
82. Full page photo and text - Sir Nevile Henderson
83. 2 pages of photos and text - London prepares for War.
84. Full page of photos and text - Signing the Fateful Pact between Germany and Russia
85. Full page advert for AUSTIN "12"
86. Full page illustrations and text - Poland's History in Maps.
87. Full page of photos and text - Poland prepares for German Air Raids.
88. Full page of photos and text - Women's part in National Service - Ambulance Drivers undergoing training.
89. Pages of photos of preparation for Air Raids, and Children leaving London and Paris.
90. Full page of illustrations and text - The Graviner System of preventing Fire when an Aircraft crashes.
91. Full page of colour photos and text from the Braemar Games.
92. Full page of small photos and text : Germany's Defence Council - Field-Marshal Goring;  Herr Rudolf Hess;  Dr LAmmers;  Dr Funk;  Dr Wilhelm Frick;  General Von Keitel.
93. Double page illustration and text - The French Armee De L'Air - latest types of Aircraft.
94. Full page of photos and text - The "Schleswig-Holstein" arrives at Danzig
95. 1/4 page photo of S S "Athenia" torpedoed and sunk by Germany.
96. Small photo and text - General J C Smuts (South Africa)
97. Full page of photos and text - "Ocean" and "Sea-Going" U-Boats
98. Full page colour picture - General Marie Gustave Gamelin (France)
99. Full page colour picture - General Lord Gort, V.C.
100. Full page of photos and text - The War Map of Poland
101. Full page of photos and text - The Heroic Polish defence of the Westerplatte, at Danzig.
102. Full page of photos and text - Warsaw's Baptism of Bombs.
103. Double of photos and text - Behind the German Lines in Poland
104. Double page drawing and text - The Torpedoing of the "Athenia" without warning: The actual moment of the attack.
105. Full page of photos and text - The landing of survivors of the "Athenia" in Eire and Scotland
106. Full page drawing and text - Survivors of the "Athenia" in a lifeboat.
107. 4 pages of photos and text - War's impact on London.
108. Double page of photos and text - France's Atlantic Squadron
109. Full page of illustrations - Maginot Line Fortifications
110. Full page Photo and text - Joseph Stalin
111. Double page of photos and text - In the Siegfried Line.
112. Double page of photos, illustration and text - The loss of H.M.S. "Courageous", one of the Navy's Sea-going Aerodromes, sunk by a german Submarine
113. Double page of illustrations and text - Fighting the U-Boat with depth charges.
114. Double page illustration and text - The brilliant R.A.F. raid on the German Naval Bases:  A Bomb hits a German Battleship.
115. 2 x full page of photos and text - Ruthless bombings and other scenes from the Polish Front.
116. Full page photo and text  - The Swastika over Westerplatte
117. Article - Eastern and Western Front Strategy
118. Article - What German African Colonies would mean.
119. Full page illustration and text - A French Super Heavy Tank
120. Full page of photos and text - German Motor-Torpedo-Boat Tatics
121. Article - The Paderewski Memoirs
122. Many pages of photos and text - The War in Poland
123. 1/2 page of photos and text - The assassination of M Armand Calinescu
124. Double page drawing and text - The last moments of the "Courageous": The Crew abandoning Ship in the failing evening light.
125. Full page of photos and text - Billingsgate leaving London (short term)
126. Double page photo and text - Brtish Tanks swooping out of a smoke-screen
127. Double page drawing and text - The First Encounter at Sea between a British Squadron and Enemy Aeroplanes
128. 2 pages of photos and text - The Last days of Warsaw and fighting in Poland.
129. Full page photo and text - A British Long Range Gun
130. Article - The War with Nazi Germany: German and Russian Manoeuvres
131. Full page advert - Burberrys
132. Photos - The first British Troops arriving in France
133. Double page of photos and text - Switzerland prepares her defences.
134. Double page of illustrations and text - The long arm of our Navy.
135. Double page of photos and text - on the Western Front.
136. Double page of photos and text - The Second British Warship to be sunk by a U-Boat:  The "Royal Oak", torpedoed while at anchor in Scapa Flow
137. Double page of photos and text - Allied Air Action on the Western Front.
138. Double page of photos and text - French Troops in Action
139. Double page - The first pictorial record of the British Force in the Line: Manning a forward concrete Pill-Box
140. Double page of photos and text - How the "Tin-Hat's" are made.
141. Article - The Great Red Enigma
142. Double page of photos and text - Training Turkish Sailors at "Deniz Harp Okulu"
143. Pages of photos and text - Royal Occasions in wartime Britain.
144. Full page of illustrations and text - The First Nazi Raid on Britain:  The Firth of Forth Attack.
145. Full page illustration and text - A fruitless German "Glide Bombing" attack on the Forth Bridge
146. Full page of photos and text - Aboard the "Bremen" on her flight to Russian Sanctuary.
147. Full page of photos and text - The King's tour of Midlands Arms Factories
148. Double page of photos and text - The Bomber shot down in East Lothian.
149. Double page illustration and text - The First Air Attack on a British Convoy
150. Full page of illustrations and text - A Hunted German Raider:  the "Pocket-Battleship" - "Deutschland".
151. Double page of photos and text - Minesweepers at work.
152. Full page drawing and text - The Master of the "Stonegate" received aboard the "Deutschland"
153. Article - The Navy's greatest Cartographer (Captain James Cook)
154. Double page drawing and text - The "Deutschland's" first victim: The sinking of the "Stonegate", whose crew went aboard the "City of Flint".
155. Double page of photos and text - German Prisoners of War at a Prison Camp in England.
156. Full page of photos and text - The Child Ruler comes to Lhasa:  Homage to the new Four Year Old Dalai Lama.
157. Double page of photos and text - The changes in Oxford as buildings being used for the War effort.
158. Double page of photos and text - The boys of St Paul's School evacuated to Easthampstead Park, Crowthorne.
159. Double page illustration and text - The British Naval Convoy System at work.
160. Article - The Threat to the Low Countries by Cyril Falls
161. Full page of photos and text - The Munich Bomb Explosion - Hitler misses death by 15 minutes.
162. Story - "Darkness" by A E D Smith
163. Full page colour advert - "White Label", Scotch Whisky
164. Full page colour advert - "Yardley"
165. Christmas Number - colour pictures, illustrations and stories.
166. Story - "Music in the Barn" by Marguerite Steen
167. Full page - Punctuation by Mr Stops (colour illustrations and text)
168. Full page of colour illustrations and text - Yougn Paganini's pranks with his Father's Magic Fiddle.
169. Story - "New Murders for Old",  by John Dickson Carr
170. Story - "Dibber;s Good Deed", by Edward D Dickinson
171. Story - "To be Counting the Swans", by Kate O'Brien
172. Full page colour advert - Matthew Gloag & Son Ltd (repaired tear at bottom of page)
173. Full page colour advert - McVitie & Price Ltd
174. Double page of photos and text - Making British Torpedoes.
175. Full page of photos and text - The Tragedy of the "Simon Bolivar"
176. Double page drawing and text - The Sinking of the "Simon Bolicar" - Dutch Liner
177. Double page of photos and text - The French Mechanised Forces.
178. Article and photos - Armageddon
179. Double page of photos and text - "Fighting Ships"
180. Double page of illustrations and text - Hitler's "Secret Weapon", - Magnetic or Non-Contact Mines, laid by Plane and U-Boat
181. Double page of photos and text - The girls of Harrogate School evacuate to Swinton Castle.
182. Double page drawing and text - The first Sea Battle of the War:  The "Rawalpindi's" heroic stand - out-gunned by the "Deutschland".
183. Double page of illustrations and text - Theatre in Drury Lane being headquarters of the "Entertainment Front".
184. Article and photos - Minoan Influences in a Hittite City.
185. Double page of photos and text - Alalakh - excavation
186. Photos and text - Finland preparing for War
187. Full page illustration and text - The successful Heligoland Raid.
188. Full page colour advert - VAT 69
189. Full page colour advert - Craven "A"
190. Double page of illustration and text - The Air Photographic Reconnaissance Work in the R.A.F.
191. Article - The story of De Beers
192. Full page of photos and text - Bombs ravage Helsinki
193. Full page of photos and text - The Petsamo Nickel-Mine
194. Full page colour photo and text - Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall
195. Full page colour advert - "De Reszke" Minors
196. Full page colour advert - "The Greys" Silk Cut Virginia
197. Article and photos - New light on Pre-Homeric Mycenae
198. Full page of photos and text - Admiral Byrd returns to the Antartic
199. Full page photo and text - The "Graf Von Spee" 
200. Full page of photos and text - The Valiant Womanhood of Finland
201. Double page of photos and text - The pupils of Rossall School evacuated to Naworth Castle
202. Full page of photos and text - How the "Graf Spee's" Guns were manned and fired.
203. Full page of pictures and text - The now discredited pocket-Battleship (Graf Spee)
204. Double page article and photos - The ships that defeated the "Graf Spee".  Cruiser "Exeter";  H.M.S. "Achilles";  H.M.S. "Ajax"
205. Full page of photos and text - Life aboard "Ajax"
206. Full page of photos and text - Australia preparing its Military for War
207. Article and photos - The Charm of the Aboringinal (Baiga Life)
208. Article and photos - Treasury of Atreus
209. Full page illustration and text - The Messerschmitt "Me 110"
210. Double page of drawings and text - The saga of the "Salmon", which let the "Bremen" go, but torpedoed a Submarine and two Cruisers
211. Full page illustration and text - A 6,000 ton "Koln" class Cruiser sunk by H..M. Submarine "Ursula"
212. Double page drawing and text - The end of the "Admiral Graf Spee":  The blazing wreck of the raider scuttled by Hitler's orders.
213. Article - The battle of the River Plate
214. Full page of photos and text - With the Finnish Army in their gallant fight against Russia
215. Double page of photos and text - The treasures of Ugarit