VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS - The Illustrated London News, 15 December 1945

London, England: 30 January 1943, 1945. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Cover: The Modern Pompeii - A City Overwhelmed by the Tide of War. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Life, Work and Setting of Philip Wilson Steer" by D.S. MacColl; Aftermath of War: Record of the Eighth Indian Division; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Atom and Its Isotopes. Pictorial Journals include: Glimpses of the Japanese Navy: Warships in Their Graves; The Anniversary of Rundstedt's Last Offensive: Bastogne and St. Vith Revisited; The Ardennes Battlefields of Last Christmas: Scenes of Germany's Final Effort; The Price of War in Once-Proud Nurember; The Hutments of Berlin: Wooden Shacks and Improvished Dwellings of Some of the Homeless Hordes in the Shattered Capital; One of the War's Most Daring Exploits: British Midget (XE3Class) Submarine Attack Which Sank the Japanese Cruiser "Takao" at Singapore (Illus. by G.H. Davis); What Happens When You Dial "999": Scotland Yard's "Operations" Room (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Princess Elizabeth at Brighton; Lieut.-Commander E.M. Brown, test pilot of the jet-propelled de Havilland Vampire taking off / landing on the deck of the H.M.S. "Ocean"; A "Shangri-La" for British Troops on Leave in the Far East: The Mullinger Club, Mussoorie; The Weapons of War and War's Aftermath; The New Waterloo Bridge: Officially Opened on December 10; Stills From (Bernard) Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" - Perhaps the Most Important Film Produced in Great Britain (starring Vivian Leigh and Claude Rains); News From All Quarters: A Pictorial Survey; Picasso and Matisse Pictures Exhibited at the Victoria and Albert; and Masterpieces from Lockinge House on Loan to Birmingham Museum. Prior owners ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Modern Pompeii - A City Overwhelmed by the Tide of War. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Life, Work and Setting of Philip Wilson Steer" by D.S. MacColl; Aftermath of War: Record of the Eighth Indian Division; Books of the Day; and Th. Good .

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