The Illustrated London News - January to June 1940

Volume of The Illustrated London News - January to June 1940

896 pages - very heavy book

Condition - Hardcover has wear especially along the edges and corners.  Inside pages clean, tight binding.  Cannot guarantee all pages are in the Volume.

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SAMPLE OF CONTENTS

1. Full page photo and text - A column of smoke proclaims the end of the "Admiral Graf Spee"
2. More pages of the sinking of the "Graf Spee"
3. Full page of photos and text - The Pope with the Italian Sovereigns
4. Full page of photos and text - Finland bombed on Christmas Day - Viborg and Helsinki
5. Full page of photos and text - Finland's War
6. Article - The Coming of the Canadians
7. Full page of photos and text - When the "Bremen" ran for Home:  A luxury-liner disguised
8. 2 x pages of photos and article - The astonishing drainage system of Ugarit.
9. Double page drawing and text - Scottish Troops taking over in the Maginot Line.
10. Article - The defence of Finland
11. Double page illustration and text - A Chart showing Armaments of Allied and Enemy Aircraft.
12. Many pages of photos and text of news from around the World
13. Double page of photos and text - Hatfield House as a Military Hospital.
14. Full page photo and text - Field-Marshal Mannerheim, Generals Ohquist, Ostermann and Oesch of the Finnish Forces
15. Full page drawing - "A.R.P. Vigil at St. Paul's" by Sir Muirhead Bone
16. Full page drawing - A British Gun-Howitzer
17. Full page of photos and text - The Victors of the River Plate
18. Full page of photos and text - The "Dunbar Castle"
19. Double page of photos and text - The War in Finland
20. Double page of photos and text - After the Earthquakes in Turkey
21. Double page of photos and text - Pottery discovered in Hungary
22. Full page photo and text - Dr Oliveira Salazar
23. Full page of photos and text - Aerial Photos of Heligoland
24. Double page drawing and text - The underground galleries of the Maginot Line.
25. Double page of photos and text - R.A.F. photos show the secrets of Wilhelmshaven and other strategic points in Germany.
26. Small portrait photos - Acting Wing-Commander Richard Kellett, D.F.C.;  Aircraftsman C R Diver, D.F.M.;  Pilot Officer G W F Carey, D.F.C.; Captain R S Benson, D.S.O.; R.N.;  Lieut-Commdr B T Turner;  Major General Freyberg, V.C.;  Lieut-Commdr R T White;
27. Double page of photos and text - Life in the giant "Sunderland" Flying Boats.
28. Double page of photos and text - After the second act of a "Little Tannenberg". won by the Finns at Suomusalmi.
29. Full page of photos and text - The home flight of the "Corsair", flying boat.
30. Full page photo and text - Brauchitsch at the front.
31. Full page of photos and text - China's mechanised Forces.
32. 4 page fold out illustration and text - The fight between Bristol "Blenheims" and Messerschmitt 110 "Destroyer" planes over the North Sea.  Drawing shows the Messerschmitts wheeling to attack with Shell-Guns;  A "Blenheim driven out of formation;  and a Messerschmitt down in the Sea.
33. 2 x pages of photos and text - With the French Army in Winter
34. Full page of photos and text - London at 25 degrees below freezing.
35. Full page of photos and text - The antiquity of Billiards:  A London Exhibition.
36. Full page photo and text - The "Ajax" arrives back at Plymouth
37. Full page of photos and text - A few of the spate of Nazi Decorations
38. Double page of photos and text - The Siegfried Line
39. Full page of photos and text - With the French Army
40. Full page of photos and text - "Molotov's Breadbaskets" wreak havoc in Red attacks on Finland.
41. Article - The campaign in Finland
42. Full page of photos and text - Rovaniemi, badly damaged by Soviet Bombs
43. Full page of photos and text - 100 years of Dominion History at the Bay of Islands
44. Double page of photos and article - The Cull Collection of Chinese Bronzes
45. Full page photo and text - The arrival of the "Altmark" prisoners at Leith on board the "Cossack".
46. Full page of photos and text - The joyful homecoming of the "Altmark" prisoners.
47. 2 x pages of photos and text - The triumphant return of the gallant Cruiser "Exeter"
48. Full page of photos and text - Anzacs of 1940 en Voyage for the near East.
49. Double page illustration and text - The "Cossack" running alongside the "Altmark" in Jossing Fjord.
50. Full page of photos and text - The "Graf Spee" settles in the Ooze.
51. Double page of photos and article - Swiss Patrols keep perpetual watch on their Snowy Heights.
52. 2 pages of photos and text - The Victors of the Plate parade in London (The men of "Ajax" and "Exeter")
53. Double page illustration and text - How the unarmed "Croxton" was machine-gunned and bombed until she sank.
54. Full page of photos and text - "Altmark" aground - where "Cossack's" daring navigation triumphed.
55. Article - The Red Army in Finland
56. Full page of photos and text - The Royal visit to Wartime Scotland
57. Full page of photos and text - "Rivers of Fire" to guard Rumania.
58. Full page of photos and full page article - A Cretan Tomb of C. 1550 B.C.
59. Double page of photos and text - The Badges of Britain's Historic Cavalry Regiments.
60. Small portrait photos - Able Seaman A L Vearncombe;  C.P.O. Baldwin, D.S.M.;  Lieut-Commander J E M Glenny, D.S.C.;  Lieut R C Lewis;  Lieut-Commander J G D Ouvry, D.S.O. (Men from the "Vernon")
61. Full page of photos and text - VIIPURI:  Finland's second City.
62. Double page of illustrations and text - The Magnetic Mine
63. Full page of photos and text - The Silver Sarcophagusof Psusennes
64. Double page of photos and text - The Turkish "Sandhurst" at Angora - In training at "Harp Akademifi"
65. Full page photo and text - The "Queen Elizabeth's" secret departure on her perilous maiden voyage to New York.  The Anti-magnetic Mine "De-gaussing Girdle" appears round the top of her Hull.
66. Full page of illustrations and text - "Robot" Guns for British Aircraft.  Remotely controlled Turrets.
67. Full page of photos and text - Deserted Viipuri - shattered by Soviet Bombs and Shells
68. Double page of photos and text - Celebrating the installation of the Dalai Lama:  Pageantry recalling scenes of Mediaeval Italy and Spain.
69. Full page of photos and text - Mr Sumner Welles Tour of Wartime Europe.
70. Full page with 2 colour pictures (1.  "Convoyed Home" by Arthur J W Burgess;  2.  "Sweepers of the Seas" again by Arthur Burgess)
71. Full page of photos and text - Radio-Balloons to provide secret weather data for the allies.
72. Double page illustration and text - The graves of the first British Soldiers killed in action by the Nazis including that of Corporal Thomas William Priday.
73. Double page of photos and text - With the "Poilus" on the Western Front.
74. Full page of photos and text - The evacuation of the Finns from Viipuri.
75. Double page drawing - H.M.S. Victory by Sir Muirhead Bone
76. Double page of photos from inside the Maginot Line.
77. Full page photo and text - The Saunders-Roe Flying Boat.
78. Double page of photos and text - The R.N. Engineering College
79. Full page of photos and text - British A.A. Gunners in France
80. Double page drawing and text - The giant "Sunderland" Flying-Boat proves its mettle: two Junkers accounted for out of four attackers.
81. Full page with 2 photos and text - The German Cruiser "Blucher" and the Light Cruiser "Karlsruhe".
82. Full page article and full page of photos - The Origin of the Finnish Race.
83. Full page of photos and text - British Capital Ships in the news:  "Rodney" and "Renown"
84. Double page of illustrations and text - When Hitler's Norwegian gamble gave Navy and R.A.F. their openings:  A pictorial Diary of a crucial week.
85. Full page photo and text - H.M.S. "Warspite"
86. Full page of photos and text - Narvik - the first Nazi stronghold in Norway to be attacked.
87. Article - The Invasion of Scandinavia
88. Double page of photos and text - Germany invades Denmark by Land, Sea and Air.
89. Double page of photos and text - The Nazi invasion of Norway.
90. Double page illustration and text - The Dive-Mobmers' swoop on a Nazi Cruiser at Bergen.
91. Full page - R.A.F. photographs of Stavanger - Nazi Air Base in West Norway.
92. Full page illustration and text - The War's first Aircraft Torpedo Attack:  A Nazi Destroyer hit.
93. Double page of photos and text - Various British and German Warships in the News.
94. Full page of photos and text - R.A.F. Photographs of the Nazis at Bergen and Kristiansand.
95. Article - The life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones by George R Preedy (Review)
96. Full page illustration and text - The men who had a "Grand-stand" view of Admiral Whitworth's entry into Narvik;  Survivors from "Hardy", ashore at Ballangen, see the Germans they had fought annihilated.
97. Full page of photos and text - The Germans in Narvik.
98. Double page illustraion and text - The first British Naval Action in Narvik Harbour when Captain Warburton-Lee led the second Destroyer Flotilla in to attack. 
99. Full page illustration and text - How "Hardy's" men eluded the Nazis:  Climbing ashore at Narvik.
100. Article - The Campaign in Norway
101. Double page of photos and text - Narvik - The scene and the actors - H.M.S. "Warspite" photographed during the second attack.  Also a general view of the Flotilla.
102. Double page illustration and text - The Super-Destroyers of the "Tribal" Class in line abreast.  Behind came "Warspite".
103. Double page illustration and text - The fourth R.A.F. raid on Stavanger - illustration of "Wellington" Bomber in action.
104. Small portrait photos - Lt-Cmdr Benjamin Bryant;  Lt-Cmdr John Grudzinski:  Lieut W D King;  Lt-Cmdr J H Forbes;  The crew of the "Spearfish";  Officers and men of the "Sealion";  Brigadier C G Phillips;  Com T D Galbraith;  Acting Squadron-Leader K C Doran, D.F.C.; 
105. Full page photo and text - Norway's King Haakon
106. Many pages of photos and text of the War in Norway.
107. Full page of photos and text -Devasted Elverum; and the N.W.E.F. arriving in Norway unharmed.
108. Double page drawing and text - A drawing made in the cockpit of a "Short-nosed" "Blenheim" Bomber.
109. Full page drawing and text - Carton De Wiart of Namsos, V.C.
110. Small portrait drawing - Admiral Sir Edward Evans;  Major-General J H Beith, C.B.E.
111. Full page photo and text - On board the 7600-ton "La Gloire"
112. Double page drawing by Sir Muirhead Bone of the Central Signal Station Tower at Portsmouth.
113. Full page of photos and text - The Clacton Disaster
114. Many pages of adverts throughout the volume.
115. Many pages of photos from Holland
116. Double page of drawings and text - The B.E.F. advance into Belgium.
117. Full page of illustrations and text - Invasion by Parachute-Armies - Nazis improve ona Soviet Device
118. Double page of illustrations Invasion by Parachute.
119. Full page of photos and text - An Aircraft-Carrier escapes four Bombing attacks off Norway. 
120. More pages about the War in Norway.
121. Full page portrait drawing and text - General Weygand
122. Many pages of photos and text about learning to be a Parachutist's
123. Article - The great German Offensive
124. Full page of photos and text - Flanders again devastated.
125. Small portrait drawings - General Von Brauchitsch;  General Halder;  General Keitel
126. Full page photo and text - General Sir John Dill
127. Double page drawing and text - The high-speed production of a formidable 12-ton Tank.
128. Double page drawing and text - A Charge by British Tanks holds up the German advance:  A gallant exploit in the streets of Arras.
129. Double page of illustrations and text - The four principal types of German Tank:  Heavy and light mechanical Cavalry
130. Double page of photos and text - French light and Heavy Tanks.
131. Full page photo and text - General Lord Gort, V.C. and General Sir John Dill.
132. Double page drawing and text - The embarkation of the B.E.F. by small boats from the Dunkirk Beaches.
133. Double page of photos and text - British and French Troops safe in England after their fierce ordeal in Flanders.
134. Article - The Battle of Dunkirk
135. Double page of photos and text - The B.E.F. line up on the beaches to be taken off by the Navy.
136. Full page of photos and text - Belgium once more under the Invader's heel.
137. Full page of photos and text - The "Defiant"; "Spitfire" and "Hurricane"
138. Full page advert - Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft Ltd
139. Many pages of photos and text - Germany tells us of her War methods.
140. Article - The Somme-Aisne Battle
141. Small portrait photos:  Capt B Warburton-Lee, V.C.;  Flying Officer D Garland;  Sergeant T Gray, V.C.;  Flying Officer E J Kain;  Vice-Admiral Sir B Ramsay;  M Eirik Labonne;  General Billote.
142. Full page advert for Whiteways Cider (Devon)
143. Full page photo - General Ismet Inonu;  Dr Refik Saydem;  Kemal Gadeletch
144. Full page of photos and text - Facing the Italians in Africa;  British Forces in Egypt
145. Full page of photos and text - India's answer to Aggression - photos of her troops in Egypt.
146. Article - The French Tragedy
147. Article - The letters of Mrs Fitzherbert and connected papers by Shane Leslie (Review)
148. Double page of photos and text - The results of the first Nazi mass Air Raids on Britain.
149. Full page colour portrait photo - H.M. King George VI
150. Double page illustration - A guide to the identification of Enemy Aircraft.
151. Double page illustration and text - The Battle-Cruiser "Scharnhorst" torpedoed and bombed.