The Illustrated London News - January to June 1941

Volume of The Illustrated London News - January to June 1941 - 852 pages.

Condition - Hardcover has some wear, internally very good condition, clean, tight binding.  Cannot guarantee all pages are in the volume.

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SAMPLE OF CONTENTS:

Full page photo and text - The Right Hon. Viscount Halifax
Articles - Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant (Many times in Volume)
Double page of photos and text - R.A.F. Badges
Double page of photos and text - The recent tour of Marshal Petain
Article - Books of the Day by Charles E Byles
Double page of photos and text - London's Fire of 1940:  The Gutted Guildhall and Wren Churches.
Full page of photos and text - Doomed Bardia
Full page of photos and text - Captured Italian Generals in Cairo
Full page of photos and text - The R.A.F. Bombing of Valona
Small portrait photos:  Squadron Leader D O Finlay;  Acting Corporal Joan Hearns-Avis, W.A.A.F.;  Captain H J Horsey;  Edward Colin Ryder Richardson;  
Double page of photos and text - The Douglas Super-Bomber
Article - The World of Science
Many adverts throughout the Volume
Literary Reviews
Double page of drawings and text - Tank Warfare in the Battle of Libya
Double page of photos and text - The Greek Triumph over Italy - commemorating the fall of Koritza and Argyrokastro
Double page illustration and text - The "Wellington" Bomber
Full page of portrait photos - New Year Honours
Full page of photos and text - Manchester Cathedral after the bombing
Full page drawing and text - Lord Baden Powell
Double page illustration and text - America's Colossal Sea Power
Full page of photos and text - The Blackburn "Botha" - Reconnaissance Plane
Article - The Victories in North Africa
Many photos from events around the World throughout the Volume
Full page of illustrations and text - The Sicilian Straits
Full page of illustrations and text - H.M.S. "Illustrious" and "Southampton": Saviours of the Convoy.
Full page of photos and text - On Board a "Sunderland" Flying Boat
Article - The Situation in the Balkans
Double page of photos and text - The Fall of Argyrokastro
Full page of photos and text - The British reoccupation of Kassala
Full page of photos and text - H.M.S. "Thunderbolt" torpedoes an escorted Italian U-Boat
Full page photo and text - General Wavell with Maj Gen O'Connor outside Bardia
Many photos from the Fall of Bardia
Double page photo and text - H.M.S. "King George V" (Battleship)
Full page of photos and text - The Greek Army in Albania
Full page of photos and text - Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek at Chungking
Small Photo and text - General John Metaxas
Full page photo and text - The "Strasbourg" at Toulon:  Admiral Darlan and Marshal Petain.
Double page of photos and text - The Island of Malta
Small portrait photos:  Professor B P Haigh, M.B.E;  Baron Somers, D.C.M.G;  D.S.O.;  M.C;  
Double page of photos and text - The Battle of Bardia from the Air.
Full page of illustrations and text - The War from three angles - The French Fleet, Eritrea, Murzuk.
Full page of photos and text - The Royal Marines in Dutch East Indies.
Full page of photos and text - A.T.S. Women Drivers of 30-CWT Lorries
2 x Double pages of photos and text - The taking of Tobruk
Full page of photos and text - The "San Giorgio" Ablaze: and Naval Prisoners after the taking of Tobruk.
Article - Benghazi is Ours
Many pages of photos and text - The taking of Tobruk
Double page illustration and text - Famous British Aircraft - The "Defiant"
Double page of illustrations and text - Fire Fighting in Buildings
Full page of photos and text - Benghazi Falls
Double page of photos and text - The Polish Fleet
Full page of drawings and text - "Position", Land Mining a road surface for Depth-Charge
Double page of photos and text - Tipoli - The capital of Libya
Double page drawing and text - Parachute Troops making a dawn attack upon an enemy position.
Full page of photos and text - America's Parachute Troops:  Intensive training at Fort Benning.
Full page photo and text - The British Entry into Benghazi.
Full page of photos and text from the Greek Front.
Full page of photos and text - Greece's Triumph in Albania
Article - The War with Nazi Germany - The Far East by Cyril Falls
Full page of photos and text - Saving the Grinling Gibbons Carvings at St.Stephen's Walbrook.
Double page photo and text - Mr Roosevelt's Historic Address to Congress
4 x  pages of photos and text - The Capture of Derna
Double page of photos and text - The Occupation of Benghazi by Australian Troops
Article - Prehistoric Nature Worship in Western Iran.
Full page of photos and text - Disc-Standards from Kuh-I-Dasht
Full page of photos and text - Mogadishu, Capital of Italian Somaliland
4 x pages of photos and text - R.A.F. Training
Article - The Chilterns
Article - The Germans in the Mediterranean
Double page of photos and text - Female training in Democratic Turkey
Full page of photos and text - Damage at Swansea
Double page of photos and text - Our Lifeboatmen
Full page of photos and text - The raid on the Lofotens: Volunteers, Prisoners and Trophies.
Full page of photos and text - The Luftwaffe in Italy
Full page of illustrations and text - The bombing of H.M.S. "Illustrious"
Double page of photos and text - The Lofoten Islands
Article - Experiences in an American-Built Destroyer in the Atlantic
Article - Tanks in the Libyan Desert
Full page of photos and text - Their Majesties inspect and inspire the Army of Poland
Full page of photos and text - Scenes in Koritza, Albania
Portrait photo - Admiral Sir Percy Lockwood Harmer Noble, K.C.B;  C.V.O.
Photos and text - Training of cadets as R.A.F Pilots and Observers
Full page of photos and text - The Key to Eritrea, Keren
Full page colour illustration - British Aircraft Camouflage
Full page colour illustration - German Aircraft Camouflage
Full page of photos and text - Buckingham Palace Bombed
Full page of photos and text - New Landing Craft at the Lofotens
Article - The Battle of the Atlantic
Full page of photos and text - The War in Africa
Full page of photos and text - A.T.S. Specialists
Full page of small portrait photos - Mrs Beatrice Rathbone;  Dr Edith Summerskill;  Mrs H B Tate;  Viscountess Astor;  Mrs Thelma Keir;  Miss Eleanor Rathbone;  Miss Megan Lloyd George;  Viscountess Davidson;  Miss Irene M B Ward;  Miss Florence Horsbrugh;  Mrs J L Adamson;  Mrs G D Hardie;  Miss Ellen C Wilkinson
Full page of photos and text - "King George V" at Sea
Full page colour advert - Guinness
Full page colour advert - Royal Navy Cigarettes
Double page of photos and text - The Blitz returns
Article - The Greek Victory in Albania
Double page of photos and text - The Battle of the Ionian Sea - British Warships which ended the Duce's "Mare Nostrum" Boast.
2 x full pages of photos and text - Italian Ships smashed in the Battle of the Ionian Sea
Double page of photos and text - Heckmondwike and its Citizens
Double page of illustrations and text - Explanatory Drawings of U-Boats and how they operate at Sea.
Double page of photos and text - Home Guard Officers Training
Double page of photos and text - Scenes from Albania
Double page of photos and text - The Army of Yugoslavia
Article - The position of Soviet Russia
Double page of photos and text - Admiral Somerville's Flagship "Renown", and "Malaya", ploughing through rough seas in the Mediterranean
Double page illustration and text - Famous British Aircraft - The "Hurricane"
Full page of illustrations and text - The Victory of Cape Matapan: Vital episodes of the Battle
Double page drawing and text - The Funeral Pyre of an Italian Cruiser: "The Fiume" sinks under a rain of 15-inch Shells
2 x Full pages of photos and text - Views of Addis Ababa
Full page drawing and text - Squadron Leader D R S Bader, D.S.O.; D.F.C. by Captain Cuthbert Orde
Full page illustration and text - British Tanks: No. 1 Infantry Tank Mark IIA
Double page illustration and text - Britain's Womanhood as mobilised for Victory (Uniforms)
Full page of illustrations and text - The Gentle Art of Baling Out.
Double page of photos and text - Germany's Hammer Blows in the Balkans
Full page of photos and text - Soldiers in Eritrea
Full page of photos and text - The "Catalina" Flying Boat
Small portrait drawings of Fighter Pilots from the Battle of Britain:  Sergeant A McDowall, D.F.M.;  Flight Lieut J W Villa, D.F.C;  Flight Lieut F J Howell, D.F.C;  Flight Lieut R F Boyd, D.F.C.;  Squadron Leader J A Kent, D.F.C.;  Squadron Leader M Robinson, D.F.C.;  Squadron Leader T F Dalton-Morgan, D.F.C.;  Flight Lieut "Billy" Clyde, D.F.C.;  Flight Lieut E Holden, D.F.C.;  Flight Lieut G Allard, D.F.C.;  Pilot Officer H M Stephen, D.S.O.; D.F.C;  Wing Commander J O W Oliver, D.S.O.; D.F.C;  Squadron Leader A G Malan, D.S.O; D.F.C;  Wing Com Victor Beamish, D.F.C., D.S.O;  Flight Lieut R R Stanford-Tuck, D.F.C.;  Flight Lieut J Cunningham;  Sergeant J H Lacey, D.F.M.;  Flight Lieut J C Mungo-Park, D.F.C.
Full page illustration - British Tanks:  Cruiser (Medium) Tank Mark IVa
Double page of photos and text - On Mount Olympus
Full page of photos and text - German Troops in Africa
Full page photo and text - The North Transept of St. Paul's Cathedral damaged by bombing
Full page illustration and text - British Tanks:  Light Tank Mark VIb
Photos and text - Athens, occupied by Nazi
Double page illustration and text - H.M.S. "Prince of Wales"
Double page of photos and text - Britain's Victorious War in Eritrea
Full page of photos and text - Paratroops training at Fort Benning
Full page of illustrations and text - How a Tank is controlled.
Article - Withdrawal from Greece
Full page of photos and text - The Uprising in Iraq
Full page of Photos and text - The R.A.F. Station at Habbaniyeh
Full page of photos and text - The last moments of the "Rajputana"
Small portrait photo - Flight Lieut J G Fleming, D.F.C;  Flying Officer J J Meikle - flying the "Catalina"
Full page of illustrations and text - The "North Carolina", America's new and mighty Battleship
Full page of photos and text - The Douglas "B-19", Dreadnought of the Air
Full page photo and text - The Altar at Westminster Abbey bombed.
Pages of photos and text - The War in China
Full page of photos and text - The Battle of Keren
Double page of photos and text - Hess's Sensational Flight from Germany to Glasgow.
Photos and text - The bombing of the House of Commons
Full page of photos and text - The Home Guard mounting guard at the Palace
Full page of photos and text - Imperial Forces enter Addis Ababa
Full page of photos and text - The return of Haile Selassie
Double page of photos and text - Scenes from the War around the World
Full page photo and text - Major-General B C Freyberg, V.C., C.M.G, D.S.O.
Small photo and text - Major John Bagot Glubb Pasha, O.B.E., M.C.
Full page of illustrations and text - Details of Troop-Carrying Gliders
Full page of illustrations and text - German Gliders and the JU "52" Sky Tug
Full page of photos and text - The Victorious Fleet Air Arm
Full page of photos and text - H.M.S. "Hood"
Full page of photos and text - The 35,000 ton "Bismarck"
Article - The Battle for Crete
Double page illustration and text - Germany's Air Invasion of Crete
Full page of photos and text - The "Beaufighter" Night-Fighter-Bomber
Pages of photos and text - Fighting in the Desert
Pages of photos and text - Coastal Command Operations
Double page of photos and text - The Church of the Knights Templar destroyed by Nazi Raiders
Double page drawing and text - The last of the "Bismarck", shelled, bombed and on Fire - torpedoed by H.M.S. "Dorsetshire"
Double page of photos and text - Ilkley Town and its record breaking War Weapons Week.
Pages of photos and text - The Allied Advance into Syria
Full page illustration and text - The Messerschmitt "Me 109F"
Double page photo and text - Fleet Air Arm "Swordfish" on board H.M.S. "Victorious"
Double page illustration and text - Alexandria, Egypt's Chief Seaport
Double page of drawings and text - The Drama of the "Bismarck's" last moments: portrayed by a Midshipman on H.M.S. "Dorsetshire"
Double page of photos and text - German Paratroopers landing in Crete
Full page of photos and text - With the British Garrison in Iceland
Double page of photos and text - Baalbek the splendid: Colossal Stones
Full page of photos and text - U.S.S.R. Leaders and Soviet Navy and Army Chiefs
Full page of photos and text - The "Bristol" Beaufort. 
Full page of illustrations and text - The Navy of the U.S.S.R.
Full page of photos and text - The Duke of Aosta and his Generals surrender at Amba Alagi
Full page of photos and text - The Polish Navy Ship "The Piorun"
Full page of photos and text - Jibuti, French Somaliland