Author: VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS Title: The Illustrated London News, 30 December 1944
Description: London, England: 30 January 1943, 1944. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Cover: Royal Highnesses Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, New Governor-General to Australia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "U.S. War Aims" by Walter Lippmann; The Great World War: "Mulberry" and the Invasion; Books of the Day and The World of Science: Kew and the War. Pictorial Journals include: Scenes from Athens: A Demonstration, and an Echo of a Shooting (illus, by Flight-Lieut. H.W. Hailstone); The Reign of Anarchy in Athens: Scenes in the Troubled Capital; Von Rundstedt's Sudden Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg (map); Germany's Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg: Towns in the News; Two German "Squirt Planes": The Me.262 and the Me.163 Fighters (illus. by G.H. Davis); The War in Italy: Eighth Army Troops Entering Faenza and Ravenna; London of the XVIth Century: Panoramas of the Ancient City as it Looked Before the Great Fire; London Triumphant: The Great Metropolis of the British Empire (Four page panoramic illustration by Sydney R. Jones); The City of London of the Future: Preliminary Proposals; A Scheme for the Prevention of Overcrowding in London; Aspects of the War in the West: Scenes from the Fighting Zones and a Panoramic of Port of Antwerp; Flooded Walcheren: Life on the Island Following the Devastation Caused by the Smashing of the Sea Dykes; and An Exhibition of Flemish Old Masters in Aid of Belgium Children. Back page missing. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Royal Highnesses Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, New Governor-General to Australia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "U.S. War Aims" by Walter Lippmann; The Great World War: "Mulberry" and the Inv. Fair .
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