The Illustrated London News - July to December 1944

Volume of The Illustrated London News - July to December 1944.

752 pages - very heavy book

Ex Library with all the usual labels and stamps.

Condition - Hardcover has some wear and tear.  Internally clean, binding tight, some tears, some have been repaired.

SAMPLE OF CONTENTS -
Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant
Full page of photos and text - The German Flying Bomb
Full page of photos and text - German launching stations in France bombed by the R.A.F.
Article - Assault on the Fortress by Cyril Falls
Double page of photos and text - Wrecked Equipment and shattered Towns and Villages in the path of the Normandy Battles.
Double page of photos and text - Fighting in France
Double page drawing and text - Tanks open fire through the walls of a Street Corner house in Villers Bocage.
Article - General Sir Harold Alexander by Cyril Falls
Full page of photos and text - The growing might of America's Sea and Air Fleets in the Pacific.
Full page of photos and text - The Bailey Bridge, which rapidly spans Rivers and Chasms
Full page of photos and text - Views in Ancient Perugia.
Book Reviews
Article and drawing - The beautiful Renaissance Gardens of the Villa D'Este at Tivoli, which with the Villa have suffered from War Damage
The World of Science
Many pages of adverts
Full page photo and text - General Sir Bernard Montgomery;  Lt-Gen Omar Bradley and Lt-Gen Sir Miles Dempsey
List of Persons awarded the V.C. with portrait photos - Corporal J H Edmondson;  Private A S Gurney;  Private P Eric Gratwick;  2nd Lt Kiwa Ngarimu;  Private Eric Anderson;  Captain Lord Lyell;  Sergt. John Kenneally;  Havildar Gaje Ghale;  Flt.Lt W Ellis Newton;  F/O L A Trigg;  Flt-Sergt A L Aaron;  Flt-Lt William Reid;  Private R Kelliher;  Lieut Basil Place;  Lieut Donald Cameron;  Major Paul Triquet;  Sergt Thomas Derrick;  Major Philip Sidney;  Lieut A G Horwood;  Major Charles F hoey;  Lieut.Col Henry Foote;  Naik Nand Singh;  Lance-Corp J P Harman;  P/O Cyril Barton.
Double page of photos and text - Flying-Bomb Bases captured in Normandy
Photos and text - Battle for Cherbourg
Many pages of photos and text - The War in Normandy
Article - Fronts - Western and Eastern
1/2 page of photos and text - The Capture of Elba
Full page drawing and text - Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, Commander in Chief 1st White Russian Front.
Full page of drawings and text - Germany's E-Boat - A Naval Mosquito with Torpedoes and Guns
Full page of photos and text - The Campaign in Italy.
Double page of photos and text - The Liberation of Caen
Full page of photos and text - Peenemunde, attacked by the R.A.F.
Many pages of illustrations and text - The Battle of the Flying Bombs
Double page of photos and text - U.S. Troops capture Saipan Island, Japanese stronghold in the Marianas
Full page of photos and text - Iceland declares her Independence
Full page photo and text - The Mayor hoisting the Tricolour in Caen
Article - The Bank of England
Double page of photos and text - The Battle of Normandy
Small portrait photos - Major J Keefer Mahoney, V.C.;  Fusilier Francis A Jefferson, V.C.;  Captain Richard Wakeford, V.C.
Double page drawing and text - Fusilier Jefferson, single-handed, breaking up an Enemy Tank Attack.
Article - Moving on in Italy
Full page of photos and text - Mediaeval San Gimignano and its Towers
Full page of photos and text - The War in Burma
Full page photo and text - Air Chief Marshal Sir trafford Leigh-Mallory and General Montgomery
Article - Our Chinese Allies Great Country
Full page of photos and text - Germany's "Human Torpedo"
Small portrait photos - General Bodenschatz;  General Korten;  General Beck;  General Von Kluge;  Colonel-General Alfred Jodl;  General Von Stumpf;  Admiral Doenitz;  Field Marshal Keitel;  Colonel General Heinz Guderian
Full page of illustrations, text and small portrait photos - The Eastern Front - General Yeremenko;  General Bagramyan;  General Chernyakhovsky;  Marshal Rokossovsky;  Marshal Koniev
Full page of photos and text - the Ghastly Massacre of Oradour
Article - Camille Pissarro
Full page of photos and text - An underground Town in Southern England
Double page of photos and text - Panorama of Florence
Double page of photos and text - The Great Russian Offensive
Full page of portrait photos - Lieut Rex J Whistler; Mr G Bede Irvin;  Sir Ralph Fowler;  Mrs Frances Bolton;  Mr F J Mortimer;  Colonel-General E Hoppner;  Riza Shah Pahlavi;  Lieut-General L J McNair;  Mr Montagu Collet Norman;  Flight Lieut D E Hornell, V.C.;  B Gimbert, G.C.;  Fireman J W Nightgall, G.C.;  Sepoy Kamal Ram, V.C.
Full page of photos and text - The Village of Lacock
Double page of photos and text - Inside the Bank of England
Full page of photos and text - The King in Italy
Full page of drawings and text - Britain's 17-Pounder Gun
Double page of drawings and text - Some details of Germany's modern Armoured Vehicles
Double page of photos and text - Scenes of action at Caumont and other sites.
Full page of photos and text - The devastation of modern war - St Lo Cathedral and other ruined sites.
Full page of photos and text - The 14th Army's success in Burma
Full page of photos and text - Warsaw - Poland's Capital under Nazi domination
Full page drawing and text - Lieut-General Omar Bradley
Full page of photos and text - Different types of German Weapons captured in France
Small portrait photos - Lt-Gen H D G Crerar, C.B.,  D.S.O.;  Group Captain J d'A Bakercarr;  Lord Gowrie, V.C.;  The Hon Sir Evelyn Baring;  Air Marshal O T Boyd;  Lt-Gen C M Willoughby Norrie;  Sergt. M A W Rogers, V.C.;  Mr A Hackzell;  Field-Marshal Von Witzleben;  Mr H H Blacklock;  Col Sir Henry Lyons;  Private George Mitchell, V.C.;  Lt-Gen Lewis H Brereton;  Lt-Gen F A M Browning;  Major-Gen Ralph Royce;  Major-Gen H S Vanderberg;  Air Vice Marshal W Elliot.
Double page of photos and text - Closing the Falaise Gap.
Double page drawing and text - R.A.F. Rocket-Firing Typhoons smashing a German Counter-Offensive near Mortain
Double page of drawings and text - The Heroism of Flt. Lt. Hornell, the first R.C.A.F. Pilot to win the V.C.
Full page of photos and text - The Fireman's Farm in the heart of the City of London
Full page of photos and text - Falaise - The birthplace of William the Conqueror
Double page of photos and text - The Kassite Kings of Babylon
Full page photo and text - Major General Patton, American Army
Double page of photos and text - A Daylight attack by R.A.F. 
Full page of photos and text - Shattered Falaise - After the Bombing
Full page of photos - The Citadel - Last Enemy held strong-point in St Male - captured
Double page of photos and text - The Allied Invasion of Southern France (Marseilles, Toulon and others)
Full page of photos and text - The Allied Entry into Florence
Double page of photos and text - The Great Trail of German Prisoners from the Gap, some of the 50,000 enemy taken in the Falaise Pocket
Full page photo and text - General De Gaulle
Double page of photos and text - Incidents in the dramatic Liberation of Paris
Full page of photos and text - What a British Infantryman carries with him into Battle
Double page of photos and text - St Martin-in-the-Fields
Full page of small portrait photos - British Field-Marshals - Lord Birdwood;  Sir Claud W Jacob;  Lord Milne;  The Earl of Cavan;  Sir Philip Chetwode;  Sir A Montgomery-Massingbred;  H..R.H. The Duke of Windsor;  The Rt Hon J C Smuts;  Sir John Dill;  Viscount Wavell;  Viscount Gort, V.C;  Sir Alan Brooke;  Lord Ironside;  Sir Cyril Deverell.
Article - Wings over Burma
Full page of photos and text - In liberated Rouen
Double page of drawings - Details of the R.A.F.'s new Gyro Gun-Sight
Full page of photos and text - The Balloon Barrage
Pages of photos and text - The liberation of Brussels
Many pages of photos and text from The Western Front
Double page of photos and text - The attack on the key point of Monte Croce, across the Foglia River
Full page photo and text - General H H Arnold, Commanding General U.S. Army Air Forces
Double page of photos and text - The Siege of Brest
Double page of photos and text - The British capture of Le Havre
Full page of photos and text - The first penetration by U.S. Troops of the Siegfried Line
Full page of photos and text - The A.V.R.E. A British Mortar Tank
Full page of photos and text - The Mystery Structure near St Omer
Full page photo and text - Units of the British Second Army in the Village Square of Valkenswaard
Double page of photos and text - An astonishing story of a German General who surrendered to U.S. Soldiers
Full page of photos and text - The liberation of Brest by American Soldiers
Double page of photos and text - The Allied Drive through Holland
Double page of photos and text - The liberation of Boulogne
Article - The Battle in Holland
Double page of photos and text - The Nijmegen Bridge intact in Allied Hands.
Double page of photos and text - War Pictures from Italy
Full page of photos and text - The Battle for Warsaw, and the Liberation of its Suburb, Praga.
Full page of photos and text - Scenes in Bucharest
Full page of photos and text - Airwomen in the Battle of the Flying Bombs - Operations Room
Full page of photos and text - The Airborne Heroes of Arnhem
Full page photo and text - Major General R E Urquhart
Article - The Achievements of the Fourteenth Army in Burma
Full page of photos and text - The End of Dover's Shelling Ordeal:  "Hellfire Corner" celebrates
Small portrait photos - Lieut Samuel Magill;  General Mack Scobie;  Major Frank G Blaker, V.C.;  Mr Richard A S Bywater, G.C.;  Geoffrey Riley;  Wing Commander G W Curry;  Major William Philip Sydney, V.C.  Angelo Batelli;  Mrs Margaret R M Gordon;  Rifleman Ganju Lama, V.C.;  Captain David Jamieson, V.C.  Captain Michael Allmand, V.C.;
Full page of photos and text - Our Advance in Italy
Full page photo and text - The Hon Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labour
Full page drawing and text - In the Mess Tent with Field Marshal Montgomery;  Lieut-Colonel Christopher Dawnay, O.B.E.;  Captain J R Bondurant;  Captain J R Henderson, M.B.E.;  Lieut-Colonel T Warren;  Captain N W Chavasse
Full page of photos and text - The liberation of Calais
1/2 page of photos and text - The Truce at Dunkirk
Double page of photos and text - Advance on Aachen:  The piercing of the Siegfried Line
Full page of photos and text - the War in Italy
Full page of photos and text - The Allied landings in Greece
Full page photo and text - Mr James Forrestal: Secretary of State for U.S. Navy
Full page of photos and text - Breendonck:  A German Torture Centre
Double page of photos and text - The most terrible example of organised cruelty in the history of civilisation.  Mass Murder by the Germans at the Majdanek "camp of Annihilation"
Full page of photos and text - The Palau Islands:  Last stepping stone to the Philippines:  Landings on Peleliu
Article - The Portrait of a Famous City - Bath
Double page of photos and text - Battle for Aachen
1/2 page of photos and text - The Tempest
Full page of photos and text - Fighting the Japs in Burmese Jungles during the Monsoon Months
Double page of photos and text - The Village of Burnham Thorpe - Birthplace of Lord Nelson
Full page photo and text - Mr Henry L Stimson
Double page of photos and text - The King's tour of the Battle Areas of France, Belgium and Holland.
Full page of photos and text - Scenes from the Battlefields of Holland
Double page of photos and text - The "Mulberry" Harbours
Full page of photos and text - British Troops landing in Greece:  Scenes in liberated Athens.
Full page of photos and text - The surrender of Polish Patriots in Warsaw
Full page of photos and text - The lonely Jan Mayen Island
Full page of photos and text - Inside Breskens
Article - Augustus John
Double page of photos and text - The liberation of the Netherlands
Full page of photos and text - The Aftermath of the Battle of Aachen
Double page illustrations and text - The Crushing Rout of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Philippines.
Article - Sea Battle in the Philippines
Full page photo and text - Thomas E Dewey - Candidate for US elections
Double page of illustrations and text- Ships of War of the Royal Navy
Double page of illustrations and text - The Ubiquitous Bulldozer
Full page of photos and text - Battlegrounds of Holland - Scenes of Walcheren Island and the Moerdijk Bridges
Double page photo and text - The landing of British Marine Commandos at Westkapelle, Walcheren Island, in the face of Heavy Enemy Fire.
Small portrait photos - Major Robert H Cain, V.C.;  Corporal Sidney Bates, V.C.;  Lieutenant Gerard R Norton, V.C.;  Major Tasker Watkins, V.C.;  Kamal Ram, V.C.;  Naik Nand Singh, V.C.;  Widow of Subadar Subramanian, G.C.;  Subadar Netra-Bahadur Thapa, V.C.;  Lieut-Colonel Maharajkumar Amarjit Singh, C.I.E.; 
Full page photo and text - The Bows of America's newest Battleship, The U.S.S. "Iowa"
Full page photo and text - Admiral Ernest J King (U.S.)
Double page of photos and text - An Island under water - Scenes from Walcheren
Double page of photos and text - The drawmatic end of the "Tirpitz" - Germany's fourth biggest Ship.
Full page of photos and text - The Campaign in Italy
Full page of photos and text - The "Tirpitz" after being sunk by R.A.F. Bomber Command.
Full page photo and text - Mr Elmer H Davis
Double page illustrations and text - The winning of a V.C.:  Captain David Jamieson directing an action which saved a Bridgehead.
Full page of photos and text - British Second Army Tanks in action
Double page of photos and text - With General Patton's Third Army in and around Metz.
Double page of photos and text - First Steps in the Liberation of the Philippines - Battle Scenes as U.S. Troops gain control of Leyte.
Full page photo and text - Mr Sam Rayburn - U.S.
Double page of photos and text - The Fall of Geilenkirchen
Full page of photos and text - The Liberation of Metz.
Small portrait photos - Lance-Sergeant John D Baskeyfield, V.C;  Major David Vivian Currie, V.C.;  Naik Yeshwant Ghadge, V.C.;  Rifleman Tulbahadur Pun, V.C.
Full page photo and text - Mr Edward Stettinius - U.S.
Double page illustration and text - The Works of the V-2 Rocket Bomb
Double page of photos and text - On the road to Mandalay - The Battlefields of Burma
Full page of photos and text - Anarchy in Athens
Full page of photos and text - British Troops in Blerick
Double page drawing and text - One example of the gallant acts for which Lt-Col R B Foote, D.S.O., has been decorated with the V.C.
Small portrait photos - All awarded the V.C. - Co. Hav. Major Chhelu ram;  L.Cpr Francis A Jefferson; Maj. J Keefer Mahony;  Sepoy Kamal Ram;  F.Lt David E Hornell;  Private George Mitchell;  Major Richard Wakeford;  C.S.M. Stanley E holiks;  Major Frank G Blaker;  Corporal Sidney Bates;  Sergeant H V Turner;  Sub Netrabahadur Thapa;  Major Tasker Watkins;  F-Off J A Cruickshank;  Captain David Jamieson;  Naik Yeshwant Ghadge;  C.S.M. P Wright;  Capt Michael Allmand;  Riflm Tulbahadur Pun;  Rifleman Ganju Lama;  Lieut. Gerard Norton;  L-Sergt John Baskeyfield;  Sergeant M A W Rogers;  W-Commdr G L Cheshire;  Major Robert H Cain;  Major David V Currie;  Captain John Niel Randle;  Private Ernest A Smith.