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PORTRAITS IN PRINT

... has genuinely gone monarchical again. September the Thirtl Within a few hours of my writing this, the beginning of the second World War will be just seven years old. Sitting in the train on that bright but awful Sunday morning, on my way from London to ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1562 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

MAN INTO SUPERMAN

... goggle-fishers of Antibes may or may not have suggested the fish- feet and underwater masks used by the gentlemen who in second World War specialized in swimming out to a warship and attaching an explosive charge to its hull below the water-line but the war ...

Published: Monday 01 November 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1633 | Page: 56 | Tags: Illustrations 

A WAR NEWSLETTER --No. 186

... thoughts of mine. The Churchill Broadcast. The twenty fifth anniversary of March 21, 1918, proved a notable date for the second World War. On that date Hitler and Churchill addressed their peoples in broadcast and Mont gomery began his assault on Mareth. ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1932 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

AT THE PICTURES: Several Kinds of Nonsense

... picture show the officer proffering advice to a subaltern who has got himself into a similar difficulty at the end of the second World War. He tells the young man his own experience, how he had failed to give, by which he means sacrifice himself, and how ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1921 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

With Silent Friends: Fiction and Fact

... the heart the whirling, palpitating, excited and somewhat giddy heart of the West End, in the decade which led to the second world war. (Hence the title.) The book divides itself into two parts a study from the domestic angle, though never so idyllic as ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2010 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

Britons _ WARTIME Ch

... men and women, there never was such a Christmas as this one we approach under the thunder sky of the second year of the second world war. If the messenger of the Feast God looked down on embattled Britain forty-five million people, a large pro portion of ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3298 | Page: 94 | Tags: Illustrations 

CLOAK AND DAGGER AGAIN: Gone Are The Days Of The Glamorous Spy. The Secret Agents Of To-day Are Team Men Or ..

... those integrated espionage set-ups which Himmler dreamed of, but never succeeded in establishing anywhere during the second World War so far as we know. It would be operating to-day, a secret worm gnawing, silent {Continued on page 54) and undetected ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2072 | Page: 56 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... heroine in the Provincial Lady series she is often in a position to indulge this pleasure, and never more so than when the second world war comes, and she hastens off to London to offer her services to her country. The fact that nobody seems to want them only ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2239 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

To-morrow, We Build: The Task of Post-war Building, Construction and Development will be Gigantic

... Build The Task of Post-war Building, Construction and Development will be Gigantic By C. Patrick Thompson WAGING the second world war is the biggest destructive job men have ever .undertaken. On the other side of it waits the biggest constructive job ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2424 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

These Discoveries Changed Human Life: How Many of Those Old Basic Inventions Were Thought Out, Sketched With ..

... plant and money to robot and rocket bombs. They didn't think the atomic bomb ;ould be developed in time for use in the Second World War. This view was shared by most Anglo-American scientists not in the secret. They were very nearly right. How long will ...

Published: Monday 01 October 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2616 | Page: 66 | Tags: Illustrations 

Fiction/Narrative

... clothes, and new allurements. Short hair and short skirts were a first world-war phen omenon. One of the features of this second world war is the deliberate attractiveness of the women's uniforms. ,K' Offered the last-war uni forms, the women's services would ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3117 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations