The Illustrated London News - July to December 1940

 Volume of The Illustrated London News - July to December 1940

852 pages, very heavy book - Ex Library with all the usual labels and stamps

Condition - Hardcover has some wear and tear at corners and edges. Binding tight, inside pages very clean.  We cannot guarantee all pages are in volume.  For more information and photos please contact us. Page 151 - top quarter of page missing. Page 159/160 missing; page 349/350 missing;

SAMPLE OF CONTENTS:

News from around the World
Royal News
Theatre Reviews
Literary
The World of Science
Obituaries
Large photo and text - Killed in an unexplained Aeroplance Crash:  Marshal Balbo, Mussolini's anti-German Rival
Our Notebook - by Arthur Bryant
Small photo - The King shaking hands with Squadron-Leader J R Kayll, after decorating him with the D.S.O and D.F.C.
Full page article and photos - With England in the forefront of the Battle, Australians answer the call, 10,000 miles from home.
2 page article and photos - Air Raid Sky Lore
2 page article and photos - Countering the Air Raid menace - types of Private Shelters
Full page article and photos - R.A.F. Photographs of Bombs striking home on Italian Bases in Africa
Article - The War with Nazi Germany:  The Balkans in the Picture by Cyril Falls
Small photos - The Hon Patrick T T Butler;  The Marquess of Normanby;  Vice-Admiral Muselier;  Marshal Graziani;  Sir William H Beveridge;  Mr Wendell Lewis Willkie
Full page of photos - The German Occupation of Paris: Hitler at the Vimy Memorial
Full page drawing - The Germans in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe
Double page drawing and text - Ringing the curtain down on a national tragedy: The last phase of France's surrender in the field.
Full page article - The last days in Bordeaux: The collapse of France as seen by the South African Minister in Paris.
1/2 page of photos - The Channel Islands - occupied by Germany
Double page of photos and text - In Soviet Russia's new Balkan provinces: Historic and Architectural treasures in Bukovina and Bessarabia
Full page of photos and text - The Scrap-Iron Campaign:  from the dump to the Gun-Foundry
Full page of photos and text - The last of the Crystal Palace goes to feed the Guns
Full page advert - Ford Motor Company
Full page advert - Austin Reed
Large photo and text - Vice-Admiral Sir James Somerville
Full page of photos and text - Scene of a tragic Naval action: Oran and Mers-El-Kebir
Double page photo and text - The French Fleet with warships of teh "Melancholy" Oran actions
Full page of photos and text - French Warships in British Ports: Sailors who scorned the shame of capitulation incl photo of French Submarine "Surcouf"
Full page of photos and text - French Warships in British Ports: Destroyers;  Escort Vessel;  Submarine Chasers and others.
Full page of photos and text - The "Dunkerque", driven ashore at Oran; and the "Strasbourg".
2 page article and drawings - Secrets of Germany's latest type Heinkel "111K Mark V", Bomber
Article - The War with Nazi Germany: The French Fleet
Full page drawing and text - After his "Oran" speech:  Mr Churchill cheered by the House
Double page drawing and text - "Wellingtons" leave at twilight for a raid
Article - Can "Blitzkrieg" be stopped by Brigadier General Henry J Reilly, O.R.C; U.SA.
Full page photo and text - The 3.7-in. Anti Aircraft Gun
Full page of small photos and text: Captain E W Moulton;  Viscount Tarbat;  M Andre Labarthe;  General Billotte;  Commdr D Sprague, R.N.;  Capt. C S Holland, R.N.;  Maj Powell-Cotton, F.Z.S.;  Baron Moncheur;  The "Andorra Star";  H.M.S. "Whirlwind"
Full page of photos and text - The "Richelieu" - disables by Motor Boat attack at Dakar
Double page of photos and text - Motor-Boats - now a weighty factor in our Naval strategy:  Types of British and German M.T.B.'s and other Power Craft
Article - Tristan Da Cunha
Full page of drawings and text - Royal Air Force Types - drawn by Sir William Rothenstein
Full page advert - Ford Motor Company Limited
Full page advert - John I Thornycroft & Co Ltd
Many adverts throughout Volume
Full page advert - Schweppes
Large photo and text - The King visits one of the smallest ships in his Navy - a Motor Torpedo Boat
Full page of photos and text - The Horror of Rotterdam - Areas devastated by Nazi Bombs
Double page of photos and text - The Italian Navy seen at Close Quarters:  Handsome Cruisers and Destroyers built by dedsigners with a "Speed Fetish", and old Battleships reconstructed
Full page of photos and text - How Hitler staged the Compiegne Armistice:  Historic photographs of France's Humiliation
Article - The War with Nazi Germany:  Prospects of Invasion
Full page of small photos and text - Sir George Grahame, P.C.;  Father T F Duggan, M.C.;  Lieut-Com R H Bristowe;  Mr A C Moreing, M.P.;  Sir Donald Tovery;  Mary Countess of Minto
2 pages of photos and text - Photographs of the Ionian Sea Battle:  An Italian Battleship on the Run
Double page drawing and text - The Channel Air Fight broadcast by the B.B.C.
Article - How Troops can be transported by Glider
Double page of drawings - Troop-carrying Gliders
Double page of photos and text - Widespread Counter-Measures to foil an Enemy's Invasion: Different methods employed to stop Air or Sea Borne Troops
Double page of photos and text - How to dig Trenches efficiently
Full page advert - VAT69
Article - On Art Collecting
Large photo and text - General Sir Slan Brooke
Full page of photos and text - A Royal review of local defence volunteers: Men of Essex.
Double page of drawings and text - How the Luftwaffe plans raids on Britain: German Bombs; Methods of Release; and technique of attack
Article - Suez and Panama
Full page of photos and text - Summer on the East Coast - 1940: Manning the "Churchill Line"
Double page of photos and text - Troops from all parts of the Empire join in Egypt's Defence.
Article with maps - Africa and the Mediterranean
Small drawing with text - Commander C H Davey, R.N. of the Patrol Yacht "Campeador", with two of hi Lieutenants - J R Muir and C E Turner
Full page of photos and text - The "Sydney" and the "Colleoni": The Australian Cruiser which scored a brilliant victory over the Italians
Double page drawing and text - "Underseeboot" surrenders to Flying Boat: The "Sunderland" catching the U-Boat cruising and bombing it.
Full page drawing and text - The "Sunderland Flying Boat
Double page of photos and text - The Bombing of the Convoy in the Straits of Dover
Full page photos and text - R.A.F. Bombs on the Dortmund-Ems Canal
Full page of small photos and text - Captain J A Collins;  Commander E O Bickford; The King decorating Sergeant G A Craig with the D.F.M.;  Major General G R Pearkes, V.C.;  M Paul Morand;  Mr H A Wallace;  M De Maglaive;  Lt-Gen C J E Auchinleck;  Ass Sec Off. J D M Pearson, W.A.A.F.;  Mrs G Newcastle, W.R.N.S;  Dr A R Glover, R.A.M.C.;  Gen Sir W Bartholomew
Full page of photos and text - Hand-Grenade throwing
Double page of photos and text - British Womanhood mobilised for a great War efford:  Badges and Uniforms that stand for devoted service
Full page of photos and text - The Observer Corps
Full page advert - Guinness
Full page of photos and text - The King visiting Naval and Fleet Air Arm Depots
Full page of photos and text - Unhappy Masqueraders:  "Maknes" victims of Nazi Terrorism
Full page of drawings and text - Official warning about Glider Invasions
Double page drawing and text - A Flying column of Motor-Cyclists and Armoured Cars - the mobile defence of Britain
Full page map drawing and text - How an Invader planned to use the Low Countries Canals to collect shipping for an attack on UK
Full page of photos and text - The Ordeal of "Lancastria" survivors
Full page photo and text - The end of the "Lancastria": A 16,000 ton Liner sinks in 30 minutes.
Double page drawing and text - The Sinking of the "Meknes" by the Germans
Full page of photos and text - Toy making 
Full page photo and text - Our Growing Toy Export Trade:  Model planes for overseas markets
Full page of photos and text - Unsinkable life-saving rafts ("Flotanets")
Full page advert - Northern Aluminium Company Ltd
Article and illustrations - Aerodynamic Cleanliness
Full page of photos and text - Gibraltar: and how a "secret weapon" failed against it in 1782
Full page of illustrations and text - An impregnable defence:  The Leonine Lineaments of "The Rock"
Double page of drawings and text - Our Polish Allies who are now fighting with us: A gallant and welcome addition to our strength
Full page of illustrations and text - Body Armour and Visors
Full page of photos and text - Already worsted by our M.T.B.'s: German Schnellboote in action
Full page of photos and text - Royal Honours for front line and home front:  Air-raid effects; and V.C.'s invested 
Double page drawing and text - Britain's defence in depth: A mobile reserve division attacking an Aerodrome "captured" by the enemy
Double page photo and text - The U.S.A.'s huge reserve of old Destroyers, of which General Pershing recently urged the sale of "at least fifty" to Britain:  "Flush-Deckers" laid up at Philadelphia
Double page of photos and text - Afrikaners and British from South Africa preparing to move to East Africa, which they are now helping to defend.
Small photos and text - Pilot Officer B H Black;  Captain J G P Ingham;  Dr Frederick Cook;  Mr M Shigemitsu;  Mr S Makihara;  The crew of the British Overseas Airways Flying-Boat "Clare";  Major General V W Odlum;  
Full page of photos and text - Mr Churchill visits the North East to see coastal fortifications and defences
Full page photo and text - A Battery "O.P."
Full page of illustrations and text - The Bicentenary of "Rule Britannia"
Full page of photos and text - Intensive training for "Padres": The Army Chaplain's Depot
Full page of photos and text - A Gangster's gift for Mussolini: An armoured train from Hitler
Small photos and text - Capt. B Warburton-Lee, V.C.;  Flying Officer D Garland, V.C.;  Sergeant T Gray, V.C.;  Captain H M Ervine-Andrews, V.C.;  Lance Corporal Harry Nicholls, V.C.
Full page photo and text - General De Gaulle
Double page drawing and text - An R.A.F. Operations Room
Full page of photos and text - British Somaliland:  The all important question of water
Double page of photos and text - The Italian attack on Somaliland:  Centres of strategic interest:  Sheikh Pass, on the Berbera Road;  Zeila, and Hargeisa
Article - The Italians in Africa
Half page of photos and text - The Nazi 'Plane that crashed on "Highlander"
Double page of drawings and text - The Immortal "Highlander": drawings by Muirhead Bone
Full page of photos and text - The U.S. Training Parachutists
Full page of photos and text - R.A.F "Tourists";  Czech and Polish Airmen in Britain
Full page of photos and text - The training of Britain's defenders on Land and in the Air
Double page of illustrations and text - Bomber versus Warship and Merchantman:  difficulties confronting any Nazi attempt at Aerial Blockade
Small photos and text - Lieut-General H M Wilson;  Brigadier A R Chater;  Lieut-Gen Philip Neame, V.C.;  Lieut Gen Sir Archibald Wavell;  Mr John Cudahy;  Sir Henry Gullett, K.C.M.G;  Lieut-Gen Sir Brudenell White;  Hon James V Fairbairn;  Brigadier G A Street, M.C.;  Mr Garfield Weston M.P.;  Sir Abe Bailey;  Bishop Hensley Henson;  Captain G A Boyd-Rochford, V.C. Mr Frank Pick
Full page of photos and text - A damaged Italian Battleship: proof of British good shooting
Full page advert - White Horse Whisky
Full page advert - Schweppes
Large photo and text - The burning wreck of a Nazi Fighter brought down in S.E. England
Full page of photos and text - The Spirit of the People:  imperturbability under German Bombs
Double page of photos and text - Striking proof of the efficacy of Anderson Shelters
Double page of photos and text - A Panorama of Nazi Disaster:  some of the 493 German Aeroplanes brought down in one week.
Article - The United States and the defence of Britain
Double page of photos and text - A Panorama of Disaster: further evidence of how the R.A.F. has mauled the Luftwaffe.  Nazi Bombers and Fighters whose wrecks now litter our Countryside and fill our salvage depots
Double page drawing and text - How Captain Ervine-Andrews won the V.C. - holding up a Nazi attack, before Dunkirk, with a Bren Gun
Full page drawing and text - Capt Ervine-Andrew's V.C. stand - 9 Men against 3 Battalions
Small photos and text - Aircraftman R B B Wheeler;  Lieut P R Exkersley, M.P.;  MAjor-Gen Sir Ivor Philipps;  Rt. Hon Sir John Latham, P.C.;  Wing-Commander B E Embry, D.S.O.;  Prince E Von Starhemberg;  Acting Flt-Lt R A B Learoyd, V.C.;  Lieut R B Stannard, V.C., R.N.R.;  H H The Sultan of Johore;  Miss Peggy Prince, with Mr H Griggs
Full page illustration and text - The Phenomenal Supermarine "Spitfire"
Full page illustration and text - The British Hawker "Hurricane" Fighter
Various photos and text - Home Guard Matters;  Making "Molotov Cocktails";  Royal occasions in two Hemispheres;  A new use for Crimea Guns;  Sea Actions Heroic and Cowardly;  Where Italy requires "10 against 1";  British captures in Libya
Double page of drawings and text - How the score of R.A.F. Fighter Squadrons is counted: an elaborate checking system to prevent false claims
Small photo and text - Sir Oliver Lodge, the famous Scientist
Full page photo and text - The Pilot's Cockpit of a "Spitfire"
Double page of illustrations and text - Antidotes to Blitzkrieg:  New devices to defeat the combination of Tanks and Planes which ruined France
Double page of photos and text - The "Big Bertha" Bogey - raised by Germany on the Straits of Dover: Propaganda Guns
Full page of photos and text - Guns that could fire across Dover Straits:  French Super Heavies which the Germans may use
Double page article - Tactical lessons of the War
Double page article and photos - The vain shelling of a Convoy in a new attempt to blockade the Channel
Double page drawing and text - Wrecking the Dortmund-Ems Canal - a keypoint of Germany's war effort: How Flight-Lieut Learoyd won the V.C.
Double page of photos and text - The first bombing of central London
Small photos and text - Lord Strickland;  Lady Cynthia Williams;  Major Lord North;  Lady North;  Leon Trotsky;  Second Lieut R W Annand, V.C. C.S.M. George R Gristock, V.C.;  Sir Patrick Playfair;  General J Metaxas;  Kieut Col Claude Beddington;  The Duc de Guise;  Commander B Bryant, D.S.C.; Lieutentant J Bromage, D.S.C.
Full page advert - VAT 69
Full page advert - Austin Reed
Large photo and text - The Navigator (R.A.F.)
War pictures by Sir Muirhead Bone and R.N.R. Midshipman J Worsley
Double page of drawings and text - The reborn Polish Air Force at its chief station in England.  Glimpses of units now on the same footing as the R.A.F.
Review - "The Book of the Radclyffes"
Double page of photos and text - French African Colonies declaring for De Gaulle
Double page article - The War at Sea - The Mediterranean
Double page drawing and text - Preparing "Whitley" Bombers for a routine night raid
Full page drawing and text - Unconventional methods of taking cover and stalking
Illustrations and text - Aerial "Fog Trail" which often reveals High Flying Raiders
Full page advert - Black and White Scotch
Double page of photos and text - Dockland fires in a raid which cost Germany a quarter of her attacking force: An East End Conflagration
Full page drawing and text - Training for the Home Guard - II - Riflemen being trained to meet dive-bombing attacks
Colour pictures and text - The Armada Jewel
2 pages of photos and text - The King sees Georing's work for himself.
4 pages of photos and text - London - Hospitals, Dwellings and non-Military areas bombed.
Article - Northern Ireland and the War
Double page of photos and text - London's G.H.Q. in the fight against Nazi Bomb Fires: The Control room of the Fire Brigade and A.F.S.
Full page of photos and text - The end of the "Colleoni" - The "Sydney" sinks Italy's crack Cruiser
Full page of photos and text - The end of the "Colleoni" - rescuing Italian Sailors from the Sea
Small photos - Lord Horne;  Lance Corporal Harry Nicholls, V.C.;  Leading Seaman J F Mantle, V.C.; Mrs Amy Noel;  Sir Harold Carpenter, F.R.S.;  Brig-Gen G Strong;  Colonel J Baldwin-Webb, MP. ;  Lieut G D A Gregory, D.S.O.;  Glyn Jone, M.M.; Major Gen C J B Hay, C.B.
Article - The rasping tongues of fruit-eating Moths
Full page drawing and text - A U.S. "Flush-Decker" in section
2 pages of photos and text - Great Ormond Street Hospital
2 pages of photos and text - Buckingham Palace Bombed
Full page photo and text - A Motor-Cycle column 
Article - The War with Nazi Germany - The Assault intensified
Full page of photos and text - The Heroic Bomb-Disposal squad who saved St. Paul's Cathedral
Double page drawing and text - The mattor of fact heroism of the A.R.P. services: Typical incidents in an East London Bombing
Many pages of photos and text from the London Bombings
Full page of drawings and text - Training for the Home Guard - III - The art of individual Camouflage as taught at Osterley Park
Full page advert - Harrods
Full page illustration - Mr F Salisbury's haunting portrait of the Airman writer of a now famous last letter
Full page illustration and text - The Navy's "little" Ships
Double page of illustrations and text - Contributions to our War effort from Empire Countries in every Clime.
Double page of photos and text - Britain's Ally in the Middle East - Egypt's modernised Army 
Full page of photos - The unwearying Heroism of the Bomb-Disposal Units
Double page illustration - A Panorama map of the Egyptian Coast and the Libyan Plateau
Full page of photos and text - Survivors of the sunk evacuee Ship
Double page illustration and text - A Naval V.C.; Leading Seaman Mantle fighting the "Foylebanks" Pom-Pom after he was mortally wounded
Full page of photos and text - Dakar: The vital W. African Port: and French Warships involved
Full page of photos and text - R.A.F. Bomb damage at Dunkirk
Full page of photos and text - Nazi vandals wreck Wren Masterpieces:  Bombed London Churches
Double pages of photos and text - London Bombed: Eltham Palace, The Tate, Bond Street and Savile Row
Full page article and photos - Queen Nebet of Egypt: A Tomb reveals her identity after 4000 years
Large Drawing and text - Drawing by Sir Muirhead Bone on the bridge of S S "Cameronia" with pilot Duncan Cameron and Captain David W Bone
Double page of photos and text - Our Gallant Bombers - The Handley Page "Hampden";  The Whitley Bomber;  The Wellington Bomber;  The Fairey "Battle" Bomber;  The Bristol Blenheim Bomber
2 pages of photos and text - China's stand against Japan
2 pages of photos and text - Tube Stations as night Air-Raid shelters
Small photos - Air Marshal W A Bishop, V.C.; Lieut Ggen Sir H R Pownall; Sir George H Wilkinson;  Admiral Lord Chatfield, P.C.;  Air Commodore E W Havers; 
Full page of photos and text - The Nazi Air War on Civilian Britain
Full page of illustrations and text - Types of War Bombs in use today
Double page illustration and text - An incident in the Bombing of Berlin: Ghostly shadows cast be a "Wellington" caught in the a cone of Searchlights
Full page of photos and text - Training _Roof-Spotters";  British Troops leave China
Full page of photos and text - Fighting Fire in Mid-Air;  Sergeant John Hannah, V.C. and "Plane"
Large photo and text - Air Marshal Sir Charles F A Portal, D.S.O., M.C.
Full page of photos and text - The Sudan Libyan Desert
Double page of photos and text - North Western Egypt invaded by Italy
Double page of photos and text - Where Egypt's strong defences begin: Mersa Matruh RAilhead
2 page article and illustrations - The War with Nazi Germany - Counterstrokes and Reprisals
Full page of photos and text - Rumanian Oilfields
Small photos - Lieut R E Davies, R.E.;  Sapper G C Wylie, R.E.;  Mr T H Alderson;  Pilot Officer C A H Connor:  Mr John Maxwell.
Double page drawing by Sir Muirhead Bone - A Famous British Naval Base - Portsmouth Hard
Double page of photos and text - Captured Planes that provide valuable data
Full page of photos and text - The Barborous Bombing of Middelburg:  Aftermath of the Nazi onslaught in May
Full page advert - Guinness
Large photo and text - The High Altar of St Paul's Cathedral destroyed by fallen masonry
Double page drawing and text - Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua - now, after 135 years, to be a U.S. Naval base
Full page of photos and text - The War at Sea:  Exclusive pictures of Destroyers on service
Full page photo and text - The two-seat turret "Defiant" Fighter
Double page of photos and text - China's Lifeline to the Sea: The reopening of the Burms Road - As British reply to Japan's threats
Article - Axis moves in the Balkans
Full page portrait drawing - Sergeant John Hannah, V.C.
Double page drawing and text - Fighting Fire in Mid-Air:  Sergeant Hannah, V.C.; battling with the flames in a blazing Bomber over Antwerp
Full page of photos and text - Damage at Antwerp and Le Havre
Double page of photos and text - The First Giant Squid caught on Rod and Reel:  A thrilling new sport in South American Waters
Full page advert - White Horse Whisky
Double page of photos and text - The King visits London Fire Brigade Headquarters
Full page drawing and text - A game of "Ukkers" in a Destroyer
Double page drawing and text - Sailors playing "Tombola" in a Destroyer
Full page of photos and text - Middle Temple Hall after being bombed
Full page of photos and text - Historic Holland House after being bombed
Full page of photos and text - Westminster Abbey after being bombed
Double page drawing by Sir Muirhead Bone with text - "Little Ships" that are bearing the brunt of the War at Sea.
2 pages of photos and text - The War in the Mediterranean
Full page of photos and text - First Photographs of Britain's latest Aircraft-Carrier
Double page drawing and text - "Wellington" Bombers attack through an intense barrage
Full page of photos and text - Nazi Air Force Training
Full page of photos and text - Producing the "Banshee Wail", stages in the manufacture of Air Raid Sirens
Full page photo and text - General John Metaxas
Double page of photos and text - The New Greek Army  in training
Article - The War with Nazi Germany - Spain and the Near East
Full page of photos and text - Italy's War Machine:  A review by Hitler's "Little Accomplice"
Double page of photos and text - Ancient Syria
Double page of drawings and text - The race to evolve a dominant type: Intensified Air War - The testing time of the Fighter "Plane"
Full page of drawings and text - Keeping track of Nazi Raiders: The method pictorially explained.
Full page of illustrations and text - Secrets of Nazi Aircraft revealed: The ME 109 and ME 110
Full page of illustrations and text - Heinkel 111K and Junkers 88-A1
Large photo and text - The end of the "Artigliere"
Full page of photos and text - The end of the "Artigliere", latest victim of H.M.S. "Ajax"
Full page of photos and text - Units of the Greek Navy
Full page of photos and text - Scenes in the picturesque Epirus, now attacked by Italy
Full page of photos and text - The Corinth Canal:  Italy's would-be short cut to the Aegean
Full page of photos and text - Navy and R.A.F. Co-operation:  Destroying an Italian Submarine
Double page of photos and text - The attempted salvage of teh "Empress of Britain": dramatic first-hand pictures of the stricken line.
Full page photo and text - Mr Wendell Willkie and his wife
Full page photo and text - President Roosevelt
Small photos - Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman;  Maj Gen A G Cunningham;  Ex-Sergt O Brooks, V.C.;  Don Manuel Azara;  Gneral A Papagos
Full page of photos and text - Home and Hostile Events
Half page of photos and text - The King inspects Australian Troops
Half page of photos and text - A.T.S. members as A.A Survey Experts
Full page of photos and text - General De Gaulle in West Africa:  At Dakar and Duala
Full page article and adverts - The Art of the Postage Stamp
Large Photo and text - Neville Chamberlain and wife
Full page of photos and text - Two Gems of London are bombed: Tower of London and St Clements Danes
Double page of drawings and text - Bomber over Berlin:  Three stages in running the gauntlet of the City's defences to bomb a target
Article - A History of Afghanistan
Full page of photos and text - The new R.A.F. Base, Crete
Full page of photos and text - Scenes in the Epirus, Italy
Full page of illustrations and text - Rival Fighters, Bombers and Flying-Boats
Article - The Campaign in Greece
Full page of photos and text - Mr Eden's comprehensive tour of the Middle East
Full page of photos and text - The Oldest R.A.F. Auxiliary Squadron - No. 601
Double page drawing and text - Controlling the Fire of the Coastal-Defence Guns: The Central Plotting-Room of a Heavy Artillery Position
Full page of photos and text - Motor-Cyclist Units: The "Light Cavalry" of the Modern Army
Full page of photos and text - Naval Craft on Service
Full page of photos and text - How the Mediterranean Fleet deals with raiding Italian Aircraft
Small photos - Pilot Officer C A H Connor, D.F.C.;  Captain John Hay;  Senator Key Pittman;  Mr H Scott Paine;  Captain Sir A H Rostron, K.B.E.
Full page of photos and text - War Scenes and Repercussions:  Italian Prisoners in Cairo
Full page of photos and text - Events at Home and Abroad:  Service Chiefs at the Cenotaph
Article - Napoleon's Plan for the invasion of Britain
Christmas Number
Article - Brides of Leviathan: Three Queens of Henry the Eighth
Full page colour advert - Brylcreem
Full page colour advert - Haig
Christmas Number colour front page - Pictures seen through the Stereoscope
Double page article and colour pictures - The Stereoscope
Full page of colour pictures and text - Early 18thCentury Churches of Middlesex
Story - The English Spinster by Margaret Lane
Full page drawing - The Old Clown:  A Circus Study by Albert Bailey
3 colour photos - The Christmas Countryside transformed by Snow
Full page of colour drawings and text - Three Dog Studies by Lucy Dawson
Story - Sudden Storn by Ethel Mannin
Large colour picture - Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second Queen and only love
Large colour picture - Anne of Cleves, the butt of the sorry farce of 1540
Large colour picture - Catherine Howard - Fairest and most ill-starred of Henry's Queens
Half page colour picture - Belisarius besieged in Rome by the Goths, A.D. 535
Half page colour picture - The Vikings siege of Paris, A.D. 885, with Ram and Burning Oil in use.
Half page colour picture - Richard Coeur De Lion's Chateau Gaillard attacked by the King of France in 1204
Half page colour picture - Early Ordnance at the Siege of Orleans, raised by Joan of Arc in 1429
Full page of colour pictures and text - The one and only Taglioni in her most famous ballet - La Sylphide
Full page of colour pictures and text - Ballerinas and Principal Boys who enchanted our Grandfathers - A page of old Ballet Prints
Full page colour picture - "The Children's Hour" from a charming Water-Colour sketch by Sir David Wilkie
Story - Heroic Hector by E D Dickinson
Story - The Trial Rabbit by Phyllis Bottome
Full page colour picture - The Young King - A Poetic Fantasy by Oscar Wilde - from the painting by Dorothy M Wheeler
Double page colour picture - The Sea - the Highway of Commerce in Wartime - from the painting by Frank Mason (small tear at bottom of picture)
Full page of colour pictures and text - An Old Border Ballad
Full page black and white advert - Highland Queen
Full page black and white advert - Player's
Half page colour picture - "A Snow Scene" from a painting by William Mulready
Half page colour picture - "Blind Man's Buff" from a painting by Sir David Wilkie
Half page colour picture - "Scene on the Ice" from a painting by Henddrik Avercamp
Half page colour picture - "Winter at Dordrecht" from a painting by Abraham Van Kalraet
Full page colour advert - Yardley
Large colour picture - "The Old Curiosity Shop" from the painting by Fred Roe
Full page colour advert - Huntley & Palmers
Full page colour advert - Craven A
Story - Wally the Warden by Douglas Newton
Large photo and text - The devastation of Coventry Cathedral
Small photo - Captain E S Fogarty Fegen, R.N.
Full page of photos and text - "Conte Di Cavour"; "Littorio" (Italian Ships);  Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham;  Rear-Admiral Algernon Willis;  Taranto Harbour
Double page of photos and text - The Glorious Victory of Taranto:  Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, which dealt a crippling blow to Italy's Fleet
Full page of photos and text - Italy's Armistice Day debacle - 13 Bombers lost in first raid on Britain
Double page article - The Italian reverses
Small photo - Flight Lieut J B Nicolson, V.C.;  Mr F G Leighton-Morris
Full page of photos and text - The shattered ruin of Coventry Cathedral
Double page of photos and text - Scenes in Coventry after the savage Nazi Raid
Double page drawing and text - H.M. Armed Cruiser "Jervis Bay" facing a salvo from 11-in Guns
Double page illustrations and text - Torpedoes from the Air:  The Technique of Torpedo-Plane attack, which caused havoc to Italy's Fleet at Taranto
Small photos - Air Marshal W Sholto Douglas;  Mr Eric Gill;  Hassan Sabry Pasha;  Rear Admiral A L Lyster;  Air Comm J D'Albiac;  Air Vice Marshal A T Harris;  Air Marshal Sir A S Barratt;  Sir Robert Brooke-Popham;  Air Marshal Phillip Babington;  Air Marshal O T Boyd;  Sir Hugh Dowding;  Maj Gen R H Dewing; Mr J B Joel;  Air Marshal E L Gossage
Article - The "Jervis Bay" of 1805
Double page drawing and text - A British "Hurricane" ramming an Italian Raider in mid-air
Double page of photos and text - India's Sculptural Treasures and Superb Temple Symbolism
Full page of photos and text - The "Guards" of Modern Hellas;  Evzone Crack Light Infantrymen
Double page of photos and text - The Tough Fighting Forces of Greece
Full page of photos and text - Indian, Polish, Australian, Canadian and Dutch Units in the U.K.
Double page drawing and text - Flit Lt Nicolson, V.C., with the "Hurricane" ablaze, shooting down a Messerschmitt
Full page of drawings and text - The George Cross and Medal, instituted for Civilian Gallantry;  Small photos - Captain R D Davies, R.E.;  Sapper G C Wylie, R.E.;  T H Alderson
Small photos - Air Marshal Sir A Longmore;  Sir Ronald Campbell, K.C.M.G;  Mr J M Andrews, P.C.;  Lord Tryon, P.C.;  Sir C M Forbes;  Maj Gen T R Eastwood;  Hussein Sirry Pasha;  Air Marshal O T Boyd;  Squadron Leader R Grant-Ferris, M.P.;  Prince Saionji;  
2 pages of photos and text - Women and Wartime Work - Their services in the War
Full page of photos and text - An R.A.F Bombing raid on Massawa
Double page of photos and text - The Fighting in Albania
2 pages of photos and text - The Balloon Barrage
Full page colour portrait - Air Chief-Marshal Sir Charles F A Portal, C..B.;  D.S.O.;  M.C.;  Chief of Staff
Full page colour portrait - Flight Lieutenant R A B Learoyd, V.C. - The hero of the Dortmund-Ems Canal Raid
Full page of photos and text - Camouflaged Patrol and "E" Boats
Full page of photos and text - Training Abyssinian Troops
Full page of photos and text - Tanks and Armoured Cars in the Desert
Double page of illustrations and text - H.M.S. "Renown";  "Littorio";  "Grecale";  H.M.S. "Berwick";  "Fiume";  "Lanciere" - Fleet involved in the Battle off Sardinia
Double page drawing and text - Britain's retort to the German Panzer Ironclad Division;  The "Dingo", latest type of fast Scout Armoured Car
Full page drawing and text - German Rescue Buoys anchored in the Channel
Full page photo and text - General Alexander Papagos of the Greek Army
Full page photo and text - The powerful rear-turret armament of the "Whitley" Bomber
Full page of photos and text - The salvaging of H.M.S. "Kelly"
Double page of photos and text - Making Binocular Glasses from raw glass to Lenses and Prism
Full page photo and text - General Sir Archibald Wavell
Double page of photos and text - British Forces in Egypt
Double page of drawings and text - Britain's new Army in "the most ambitioius exercises ever carried out"
Full page of photos and text - The Triumphant Greek Advance in Albania
1/4 page portrait sketches of the following:  Major J B McCudden, V.C.; D.S.O.; M.C.; M.M. - Lieut A P F Rhys Davids, D.S.O.; M.C.; R.F.C - An N.C.O. Pilot, R.F.C. - 2nd-Lieut Gilbert S M Insall, V.C.; M.C. - Squadron Leader J R Kayll, D.S.O.; D.F.C. - Wing Commander Basil E Embry, D.S.O.; A.F.C. - Acting Flight Lieutenant J A Sieburt, D.F.C - Wing Commander A D Farquhar, D.F.C.;  Auxiliary Air Force
Large photo and text - General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, K.C.B.; D.S.O. and others
Double page of photos and text - Activities on an Aircraft-Carrier:  Men of the Fleet Air Arm on Sea Patrol duty aboard a modern parent Ship
Full page of photos and text - Assisting their Allies in the Desert Battle:  Free French Units
Full page of photos and text - "Blenheims" over the open desert
Full page of photos and text - Sidi Barrani, whose fall started the Italian Rout;  and Bardia
Article - The Battle of Sidi Barrani
2 pages of photos and text - The Italian Rout
Full page of photos and text - Italian Troops training in the Desert
Double page illustration and text - H.M.S. "Illustrious", Britain's Aircraft Carrier which played a vital role in the Taranto Raid
Full page of photos and text - The Taking of Gallabat
Full page of photos and text - The Precentor's House and Upper School at Eton College bombed
Double page of photos and text - R.A.F. raids on Kiel Harbour
Full page illustration and text - A Destroyer on convoy:  Night signalling from the Bridge
Full page of photos and text - The R.A.F. hammer targets far apart:  Mannheim and Eritrea
Full page of photos and text - Mussolini's ambitious road to Egypt:  The 1200 mile coast route
Full page of photos and text - Parliament and the Cavell home struck by bombs
Full page article - Review of the year of the War with Nazi Germany
Full page of photos and text - Indian and native troops ready on the Eritrea-Abyssinian borders
Full page of illustrations and text - "Private Blitzes" in teh Coastal Command - North Sea Patrols
Double page of photos and text - Vehicles of Victory:  Units of the mechanised Cavalry, the spearhead of General Wilson's lightning Attack
Double page of photos and text - The "Wrens" O.T.C. War establishment housed today in the Historic Royal Naval College at Greenwich
Double page drawing and text - A "Spitfire", a few seconds after taking off
2 pages of illustrations and text - The Polish Navy and Polish Fleet
Full page of photos and text - Flights into the Empyrean:  How the R.A.F. obtain weather reports
Full page of photos and text - Training Dogs for War Service:  The usefulness of Airedales