The Illustrated London News - Jan to June 1945

Volume of The Illustrated London News - January to June 1945

712 Pages - Very heavy book

Condition - Hardcover has wear and tear, binding tight.  Internally clean, some tears repaired, some not.  Cannot guarantee all pages are in volume.

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SAMPLE OF CONTENTS
Full page photo and text - The Rt Reverend and Rt Honourable Geoffrey Francis Fisher
Double page of photos and text - The British Drive in Burma
Small portrait photos - Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu, V.C.;  Corporal John W Harper, V.C.;  Private Richard H Burton, V.C.;  Naik Agansing Rai, V.C.;  Sergeant George H Eardley, V.C.;  Lieut John H Grayburn, V.C.;  Captain Lionel E Queripel, V.C.;  Captain John Henry Brunt, V.C.;  Captain J R O Thompson, G.C.
Double page of photos and text - The Allied Campaign in Burma
Article - The Allies strike back in the Ardennes
Double page of photos and text - Scenes from the British Sectors in the Ardennes Salient
Double page illustration and text - Constructing a "Paper" Airstrip in Fighting Zone on the Western Front
Double page of photos and text - Allied Counter-Offensives on Rundstedt's Flanks
Full page of photos and text - Germans Outwitted - Meteorologists in Greenland Silenced
Various Pages - News from many Battlefronts
Many pages of Adverts
Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant
Full page of photos and text - Bastogne - The scene of the epic of the 101st U.S. Airborne Division
Full page of photos and text - Laroche in Allied Hands.
Double page of photos and text - Winter on the Western Front
Double page illustration and text - Sergeant Eardley Silencing the last of Three German Machine-Gun posts in an action which won him the V.C.
Full page of photos and text - Battle Scenes in Budapest
Full page of photos and text - The Ledo road now open - Highway from India via Burma links China
Double page of photos and text - Milestones of the Russian Offensive inc photos of General Petrov;  Marshal Koniev;  Marshal Rokossovsky;  Marshal Zhukov;  Marshal Tolbukhin;  Marshal Malinovsky.
Article - The Winter Campaign of the Red Army
Double page of photos and text - The British Second Army's Advance North of Sittard into the Roer Salient
Full page of photos and text - With the U.S. Army on the Alsace Front
Full page of photos and text - Houffalize
Double page illustration - The making of a "Mulberry"
2 x full pages of photos and text - The War in Burma
Full page of photos and text - Eltham Palace for the nation
Full page photo and text - The battered Belgian Town of Houffalize
Full page photo and text - Mr Henry A Wallace
Full page of photos and text - British Troops in action in the Snow - The occupation of Heinsberg
Half page of photos and text - U.S. First Army takes St Vith
Full page of photos and text - R.A.F. Mosquitoes in Norwegian Fjords
Full page of photos and text - Liberated Warsaw - Largely in Ruins
Article - The second stage on the Eastern Front
Full page photo and text - Marshal Zhukov
Full page of photos and text - War's ravages in two famous Capitals - Budapest and Warsaw
Full page of photos and text - With the Victorious Red Armies in East Prussia and other areas.
Full page of photos and text - On the Western Front:  Scenes from the American Fighting Sectors
Double page of photos and text - The West Front
Double page of illustrations and text - German Landmines 
Double page of photos and text - The Philippines Liberated
Full page of photos and text - Akyab, where the Jungle has encroached on the Town.
Full page of photos and text - Burma - scenes at the Front and Behind the Lines
Full page of photos and text - The Battle of the Roer Dams
Double page of photos and text - The Reichswald Offensive
Double page illustration and text - The Crossing of the Vloed Beek
Double page illustration and text - The Gallant Fight in Susteren
Double page illustration and text - The Critical Schilberg Crossroads
Half page of photos and text - Allied Victory in Colmar
Full page of photos and text - The Crimea Conference
Full page of photos and text - The Damage to the Campo Santo of Pisa
Double page of photos and text - The Ruins of Cleve (A German Town)
Full page of photos and text - Dreden: Bombed by the Allies
Full page of photos and text - The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in Canberra
Full page of photos and text - The setting for the Crimea Conference: Views of Yalta
Double page drawing and text - Hand to Hand Fighting in St Joost.
Double page drawing and text - The Artificial Moonlight Battle for Montfort
Double page drawing and text - The Cavalry-Commando Charge at Linne
Full page of photos and text - Tokyo, Capital of Japan
Small portrait drawing - General Ivan D Cherniakovsky
Full page photo and text - Marshal Koniev
Full page of photos and text - The Advance on Luzon
Full page of photos and text - Incidents at the front and behind the lines
Double page of photos and text - The American Advance into Germany
Double page of photos and text - The Battle for Goch
Article - The American passage of the Roer
Full page of photos and text - The War in the Pacific - Luzon Island and Iwojima
Full page of photos and text - The Invasion of Iwojima
Full page of photos and text - Scenes in Manila, destroyed by the retreating Japanese
Full page drawing and text - The Storming of the Reichswald and Cleve
Full page of photos and text - The Battle of the Bridges (Rhine)
Double page of photos and text - Scenes of bitter fighting by the Canadian First Army and United Kingdom forces - The victorious progress to the Rhine
Double page drawing and text - Scottish medium Artillery covering the advance of British Tanks South of Goch
Full page of photos and text - The Invasion of Iwojima
2 x pages of photos and text - Scenes on the Eastern Front
Full page of photos and text - Pagan - The romantic City of Pagodas
Double page of photos and text - Pagan, the ancient Buddhist Capital of Burma
Full page of photos and text - In Captured Cologne - the devasted area round the Cathedral
Double page of photos and text - In Captured Cologne
Full page of photos and text - Remagen and its now-famous Bridge
Full page of photos and text - U.A. First Army troops advancing across the Bridge from Remagen
Full page of photos and text - Heroines of the U.S.S.R. Red Air Force:  Major Yevdokia Bershanskaya;  Guards Lieut Natalia Meklina;  Major Yevdokia Mikulina; Flight Commander Guards Senior Lieut Irina Sebrova;  Guards Senior Lieut Rufina Gasheva;  Flight Commander Guards Lieut Yevgenia Zhigulenko
Small portrait photos - Lieut Carl Timmerman (U.S.);  Lieut F A B Fasson, G.C.;  Dr Janet Vaughan, D.M.;  Mr Peter Lawless, M.C.;  Lance-Corporal Henry Harden, V.C.; F.O. R B Gray, G.C.;  Cpl Richard Blackburn, G.C.;  Flt Lieut C B Crafer;  Sepoy Bhandari Ram, V.C.;  Fusilier Dennis Donnini, V.C.;  Captain Julian Tennyson;  Squadron Leader Robert A M Palmer, V.C.;  Corporal Kenneth Horsfield, G.C.;  Miss Sybil Campbell, O.B.E.;  Major General T G Rennie, D.S.O.; 
Small photo of The King presenting the D.S.M. to leading Seaman Albert Edwards
Full page of photos and text - Mandalay - former Royal Capital of Burma
Double page of illustrations and text - A Panorama of the Rhine, together with places of special interest along its banks
Article - Land and Air Attack on Germany
Full page of photos and text - Mandalay:  Fort Dufferin, the former Palace of the Burmese Kings.
Full page of photos and text - Features of Fort Dufferin and the famous Mandalay Hill
Full page of photos and text - The collapsed Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen
Double page of photos and text - The storming of Coblenz
Full page of photos and text - The capture of Saarbrucken and Worms:  White Flags in Durenbach
Full page of photos and text - News items from the Western Front
Full page of photos and text - The campaign in the S.W. Pacific: with the Australians on Bougainville
Full page of drawings and text - Rainbow Corner, Shaftesbury Avenue (The American Red Cross Club)
Full page drawing and text - Lieut-General Sir Miles Dempsey, D.S.O; M.C.
Full page of photos and text - Field Marshal Mongomery discussing details of the great allied assault at the Rhine
Full page of photos and text - British Airborne Troops in the biggest Air landing to date. (The Rhine)
Full page of photos and text - Warsaw, Poland
Full page of photos and text - The building of a Bailey Bridge
Double page illustration and text - The Bailey Bridge
Article - The Campaign beyond the Rhine
Double page drawing and text - The storming of the Village of Appelhulsen
Full page of photos and text - Scenes at the fall of Mandalay
Full page of photos and text - Inspiration for Mulberry:  The old British Dredger, built in 1923, whose design was adapted for the famous D Day invasion Harbour.
Double page of photos and text - Memories of America's great President - Mr Roosevelt
Full page of photos and text - The allied advance in Western Germany
Full page of photos and text - British storm Arnhem
Double page drawing and text - The massacre of Welsh Prisoners at Rethem.
Full page of photos and text - British Prisoners of War regain freedom - The arrest of Von Papen
Small portrait photos - Private Ivor James Parry;  Lieut G A Knowland, V.C.;  Private James Stokes, V.C.
Full page of photos and text - The Eagle's Nest - Hitler's former H.Q. now in American Hands.
Full page photo and text - The macabre scene of victims murdered by S.S. Guards at Ohrdruf Camp.
Full page of photos and text - Pockets of resistance - The Ruhr and Royan
2 x pages of drawings and text - The liberation of Stalag 11B
Full page of photos and text - The advance in Italy: British Troops cross the Santerno, Bologna falls.
Full page of photos and text - In liberated Vienna with the Red Army
Full page of photos and text - Mussolini (Incidents in his career)
Full page of photos and text - Bremen captured
Full page of drawings and text - The Battle of Bremen - British Forces assault on the Great Port
Full page of photos and text - Berchtesgaden bombed
Full page of photos and text - The Battle for Berlin
Full page of illustrations and text - The Historic Climax to Montgomery's Victorious Campaign - The signing of an unconditional surrender.
Full page of small portrait photos - Great Naval figures, who brought us Victory - Sir Dudley Pound;  Vice Admiral Sir Edward N Syfret;  Sir John Tovey;  Admiral Sir B Fraser;  Rear-Adm P Vian;  Admiral Sir J Somerville;  Adm Sir H Harwood;  Vice Admiral Sir Henry R Moore;  Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten;  Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay;  Vice Admiral Sir Harold Burrough;  Admiral Sir John Cunningham;  Admiral Sir Max Horton;  Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham
Full page of small portrait photos - Great Military figures, who brought us Victory - Field Marshal Lord Wavell;  Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke;  Lt Gen Sir Oliver Leese;  Gen Sir Frederick Pile;  Gen Sir William Platt;  Lieut Gen Sir Alan Cunningham;  Field Marshal Sir John Dill;  Field Marshal Sir Maitland Wilson;  General Sir Thomas Blamey;  Lt-Gen Sir Richard McCreery;  Lt-Gen Sir William Dobbie;  Lt-Gen F A Browning;  Lt-Gen Sir Bernard Freybert, V.C.;  Lt-Gen Sir Miles Dempsey;  Gen H D G Crerar
Small portrait photos of some great R.A.F. Leaders - Sir Charles Portal;  Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas;  Air Marshal Sir R Hill;  Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris;  Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod;  Air Marshal Sir John Slessor;  Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder;  Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir C Newall;  Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh P Lloyd;  Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory;  Air Marshal Sir K Park;  Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding;  Air Commordore Finlay Crerar;  Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham.
Full page colour photo and text - General of the Army Dwight D Eisenhower
Double page colour photo and text - Mr Winston Churchill
Full page colour photo and text - Sir Bernard Montgomery
Full page photo and text - Field-Marshal Sir H Alexander
Full page of portrait photos - U.S. Leaders playing a part in the German defeat - General Mark Wayne Clark;  Lieut.Gen J Doolittle;  Gen H H Arnold;  Admiral H K Hewitt;  Fleet Adm E J King;  General Omar Bradley;  Lieut.General A Patch;  Lieut.Gen W Bedell Smith;  Gen G S Marshall;  Lieut Gen L K Truscott;  Lieut Gen Ira Baker;  Lt Gen L H Brereton;  Admiral H R Stark;  Gen Carl S Spaatz;  General Jacob L Devers;  Lt Gen L T Gerow;  Maj Gen N F Twining;  Lt Gen W H Simpson;  General C Hodges;  General George Patton
Full page of portrait photos of Soviet leaders playing a part in the German defeat - Marshal of Aviation, Alexander Novikov;  General Eremenko;  Marshal Rokossovsky;  Marshal Tolbukhin;  Marshal Malinovsky;  Marshal S Timoshenko;  M V Molotov;  Marshal K Voroshilov;  Joseph Stalin;  Marshal Zhukov;  Marshal Koniev;  Marshal Meretskov;  General I Bagramyan;  General Chernyakhovsky;  Marshal A M Vassilevsky;  General N F Vatutin;  Marshal of Artillery, N Voronov
Full page of small portrait photos of Empire and Foreign Leaders who played a part in the War - The Rt Hon W L Mackenzie King;  Field Marshal the Rt Hon J C Smuts;  General De Lattre de Tassigny;  General De Larminat;  General Leclerc;  General Koenig;  General Sikorski;  Dr Eduard Benes;  Sir Firozkhan Noon;  General A Papagos;  Rt. Hon Peter Fraser;  Rt. Hon John Curtin.
Full page of small portrait photos of Protagonists of the Axis: Hermann Goring;  Field Marshal Keitel;  Field MArshal W Von Brauschitsch;  Field-Marshal A Von Kesselring;  Field-Marshal G Von Rundstedt;  Heinrich Himmler;  Marshal Graziani;  Field Marshal E Rommel;  General Von Arnim;  Colonel-General Heinz Guderian;   Field Marshal Von Paulus;  Field Marshal Von Manstein;  General Milch;  General Halder;  Admiral Doenitz;  Admiral Raeder.
Full page of photos and text - The Fall of Munich
Full page of photos and text - The Fall of Berlin
Many pages of photos and text - VE Day Celebrations
Full page of photos and text - Captive German Cruisers at Copenhagen: The first U-Boat arrives at Portland
2 pages of photos and text - Unconditional German surrender signed at Rheims
Pages of photos and text - Victory Celebrations from around the World.
Full page of photos and text - The Channel Islands Liberated.
Small portrait photos - Major Charles Sweeny, M.C.;  Wing Com A E Saunders;  Jemadar Parkash Singh, V.C.; Kurt Von Schuschnigg;  Pastor Niemoller;  Lieut W B Weston, V.C.;  Major F A Tilston, V.C.
Full page of photos and text - The Liberation of Denmark.
Full page of photos and text - Distinguished Prisoners released by the U.S. Seventh Army.
Full page of photos and text - Trieste:  The Eighth Army's Arrival
Full page of photos and text - H.M.S. "Howe", Admiral Fraser's Flagship in New Zealand Waters.
Full page photos and text - H.M.S. "Indomitable", one of the Navy's largest Aircraft Carriers
Full page of photos and text - Heligoland occupied by British Forces
Full page of photos and text - "Pluto" - The British Oil-Pipe Cross-Channel System in Operation.
Article - France and her Rehabilitation
Full page of photos and text - Scenes from Goering's Mountain Hoard of Treasure.
Full page of photos and text - Tarakan Island:  The scne of a successful Australian Invasion.
Double page of photos and text - Allied Action on Okinawa Island.
Full page of photos and text - The United States Aircraft-Carrier "Franklin"
Full page portrait drawing and text - Lieut-Gen Sir William Slim
Double page of photos and article - Himmler's Hoard discovered in Westphalia
Full page of photos and text - Clearing Mines from Britain's Beaches
Full page of illustrations and text - The locating of the true magnetic North Pole: An R.A.F. Discovery
Full page of photos and text - Okinawa Island
Article - Progress of the Campaigns against Japan
Double page drawing and text - Field-Marshal Monrgomery's tactical H.Q. on Luneburg Heath
Full page of photos and text - Hitler's Car and Himmler's Cache
Full page of photos and text - The recent disturbances in the Levant.
Small portrait photos - Havildar Umrao Singh, V.C.;  Lieut General Sir Montagu Stopford;  Miss Baden Powell;  Air Marshal W A Coryton;  Corporal R P Hunter, V.C.;Captain I O Liddell, V.C.;  Lieut. Colonel A C Newman, V.C.;  Sergeant T F Durrant, V.C.;  Sepoy Namdeo Jadhao, V.C.
Full page of photos and text - In Occupied Berlin - Present Day Life
Full page of drawing and text - Humorous Sketches used to underline the Atlantic Convoy Orders.
Full page illustration and text - The Vickers Viking 27 Seater Liner (Airplane)
Full page of photos and text - The Gorgeous Palace of the Kings of Naples now Headquarters of R.A.F. at Caserta
Full page of photos and text - The execution of the joint declaration in Berlin by four Allied Commanders-in-Chief
Full page drawing and text - An Artist's impressions of the Submarine Nests at Trondhjem
Double page of photos and text - British Self-Propelled Bridges
Full page of photos and text - Their Majesties among the freed peoples of the Channel Islands
Full page of photos and text - A Farewell to Armour: The final parade of a Guards Division
Article - Triumph of the Principles of Sea Power
Full page of photos and text - Final Victory in Burma:  Capture of Rangoon, Prome and Airfields
Full page of photos and text - The All-British Aluminium House
Full page of photos and text - Swedish Timber Homes for Britain
Full page of photos and text - The Troubles in Syria:  Damage to Damascus by French Guns
Full page of photos and text - F.M. Montgomery's Schloss H.Q. in the British Zone of Germany
Full page portrait drawing - Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck
Double page drawing and text - The Drawing-Room of the German Suburban Villa in which William Joyce and Ribbentrop were questioned.
Full page - General Eisenhower Speech  at the Guildhall
Full page of photos and text - Okinawa Island
Full page of photos and text - Pictures from Borneo and Burma
Full page of photos and text - The German Battleship "Tirpitz"
Full page of photos and text - A Field Hospital for U.S. Navy Ships: Floating Dry-Docks
Double page of photos and text - Japanese Fighter Pilots "Suicide" Tactics.
Double page drawing and text - Sir Muirhead Bone's drawing of a Wartime Industry: Barrage Balloons in the Making.
Full page photo and text - Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Full page of photos and text - A Jubilee gift to the National Trust - Charlecote Park