You are bidding on a vintage World War Two Issue of ‘War Illustrated’ Magazine

• Vol 1 No 11

• NOVEMBER 25^th 1939

• Pages; 32

  War Illustrated needs no introduction to anyone interested in World War Two. In addition to contemporary photographs of the war in all its elements – all of which are accompanied by descriptive script, the magazine contains intelligent articles on all aspects of the war.
  
  One really interesting section is the “I WAS THERE!” - Eye-Witness report Section.

• Photos: FP = Full page, HP = Half Page

• FP Pic: One of the guns of a coastal defence battery in the east of England in action during training

• 6 cartoons: Britain's Field Force Through French eyes

• 5 Pics: The Duke of Windsor Sees his Second War (Edward VIII)

• 4 Pics: Here in the Front Line are the 'Poilus'4 Pics: While Here are Nazis in Their 'Westwall'

• FP Pics: They are Ready to Send Death into the Skies: Quick firing two-pounder Bofors anti-aircraft gun of Swedish design with crew

• 2 Pics and article: The War's First Air Heroes Decorated by King:
  - Flying Officer Andrew McPherson, D.F.C.
  - Flying Officer Thurston, Meiggs, Wetherall, Smith D.F.C.
  - Flying Officer Kenneth Christopher Doran D. F. c.
  - Sergeant William edward Willits, D. F. M.
  - The King decorating Sergeant Willits

• Double Page Pic: 'When These Great guns Begin to Speak Britain May Well Bid Defiance to Her Foes' – A Coastal battery 'Somehwere in England'

• 4 Pics: They Have Come Back to Blighty Already:
  - Nurses and Soldiers being entertained 'Somewhere in England'
  - A Nursing sister helping wounded men who have their arm in a sling to a light.
  - Patients at a hospital exercising

• 5 Pics: Smoothing the Way of the Wounded.
  Hospital ships, nurses, St John Ambulance etc etc

• 3 Pics: Great Guns That Make our Coasts Secure

• 6 Pics: The Whole World Watched the Odyssey of the Ship: “The City o Flint”
  
  

• Articles:

• 4 Pics and Article: Entente Cordial in the Maginot Line

• 2 Pics and Article: Finland Stands Out Against the Soviet

• The Empire Gets into its Stride: Training Airmen in South Africa

• 5 Pics and Article: At the Heart of Britain's Air Defence

• 5 pics and article: Threatened with War they Appealed for Peace: Holland and Belgium

• Words that History Will Remember

• Odd Facts About the War

• Despite the War Paris is Not So Gloomy

• 3 Pics and article: In wartime 'Q' Is Big Business

• In the End We Shall Break their Hearts: Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty

• These are the Tales the Nazis Spread About u
  
  

• 'I WAS THERE': “Our Ships Fought Back at the U-Boats”:

• 'I WAS THERE': “I commanded the Captured “City of Flint”

• 'I WAS THERE':  “I Saw Hitler's Rout at Munich”

• 'I WAS THERE': “We Found a German Plane on the Hill”. The Lammermoor Hills, East Lothian, by Mr John K. Irvine of Long Newton Farm

• Who Was the Guy Fawkes in the Munich Cellar:
  'Jews and the British Again! - The Gestapo Worried.

• Our Diary of the War

The magazine has some light wear and buffeting commensurate with this age, mainly where it has been removed from the original volume - apart from which it is in excellent condition with no rips, tears, writing or other major marks.

• Happy bidding!

• Postage: £1.45

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