The Illustrated London News - November 16, 1940

Full issue of The Illustrated London News, November 16, 1940 and Christmas Number.

42 pages

Condition is good.  Some wear and tear on front cover where it was removed from a volume.  Internal pages clean and tidy.  Some pages have old tape repairs.

Contents incl:
Front page photo and text - Mr Neville Chamberlain and his wife.
Full page of photos and text - Two Gems of London Bombed:  The Tower and St Clement Danes.
2 pages of illustrations and text - Bomber over Berlin:  Three stages in running the Gauntlet of the City's defences to bomb a target.
Full page article - Landlocked Guardian of "The Keys of India"
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 - Middle East Warfare.
Article - The Campaign in Greece
Full page map and article - The Levant:  Battleground of the Empire today.
Full page of photos and text - Mr Eden's comprehensive tour of the Middle East.
Full page of photos and text - Flying Events:  The Oldest R.A.F. Auxiliary Squadron.
Full page photo and text - A Harried Dornier unloads
Double page illustrations 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.
Full page of photos and text - People and War Events - Alderman Sir George Henry Wilkinson;  Pilot Officer C A H Connor, D.F.C.;  Captain John Hay;  Senator Key Pittman;  Mr H Scott Paine;  Capt Sir A H Rostron;  Admiral Horthy of Hungary
Full page of photos and text - War Scenes and Italian Prisoners in Cairo
Full page of photos and text - Service Chiefs at the Cenotaph.
1/2 page of photos and text - The Royal Visit to Merseyside
1/2 page of photos and text - R.A.F. "Blenheim" Night Fighters
Article - Napoleon's Plan for the Invasion of Britain.
The World of Science
Books of the Day
Lots of small adverts
Article - Brides of Leviathan - Three Queens of Henry the Eighth
Full page colour advert - Brylcreem
Full page colour advert - Haig
Christmas Number:
Full page colour picture - Relief Pictures seen through the Stereoscope:  An Eighty Years Old Pastime (from a painting by Steven Spurrier)
Double page of colour pictures and articcle - Life in the "Fifties" (1800's) recorded by Stereoscopic Photographs
Full page of colour pictures and article - Early 18th Century Churches of Middlesex: Now engulfed by Greater London - Ickenham Church, near Uxbridge;  Feltham Church;  St Paul's, Hammersmith;  St Mary Abbots, Kensington;  Bedfont;  Hillingdon Church.
Story - The English Spinster by Margaret Lane
Full page illustration - The Old Clown:  A Circus Study by Albert Bailey
2 pages of colour photos - The Christmas Countryside transformed by Snow.
Full page of colour pictures and article - Three Dog Studies by Lucy Dawson
Story - Sudden Storm by Ethel Mannin
Full page colour picture - Anne Boleyn (from a painting in the National Portrait Gallery)
Full page colour picture - Anne of Cleves
Full page colour picture - Catherine Howard
2 pages of colour pictures and text - Defence in Past Ages (drawn by the late Amedee Forestier)
Full page of colour pictures and article - The one and only Taglioni in her most famous Ballet
Full page of colour pictures and article - Ballerinas and Principal Boys who enchanted our Grandfathers
Full page colour picture - "The Children's Hour" from a painting 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
Full page An Old Border Ballad (illustrated)
Full page advert - Highland Queen Grand Liqueur
Full page advert - Player's Navy Cut
Full page colour advert - Gifts by Yardley
Full page colour advert - Huntley & Palmers
Full page colour advert - Craven "A"
Story - Wally the Warden by Douglas Newton