... again and the universal cloche was at last demodee. The levelling of fashion, begun in the First, continued during the Second World War. Millions poured into war factories and the Forces, and uni forms had priority over civilian clothing, yet the families ...

... with terms like magnificence and knock-out and breath taking. It also forewarns us of a new cycle of films about the Second World War. To use the word world in connection with the war shown in Task Force is just a bit misleading, however. Apart from a ...

... Goodwood has been traditionally associated with one of the most pleasant meetings of the racing calendar. But since the Second World War it has been rapidly building a new reputation as one of the few centres of motor racing in Great Britain, and on Whit ...

... an upper-middlerclass English family. She loses members of that family in the Zulu War, the Boer, the Great and the Second World Wars. One of her circle becomes a sort of William Whiteley or Gordon Selfridge another, her husband, is a minor politician ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Vol. V. Closing the Ring. By Winston S. Churchill. (Casse// 30s.) CHANCE ACQUAINTANCES. By Colette. (Seeker and Warburg 12s. 6 d.) TWO SHADOWS PASS. By Clifford King. (Hart-Davis 10s. 6d.) MURDER BY PROXY. By Helen ...

... amateur runner, cyclist, boxer, Sir Thomas was a prisoner of the Turks and Russians in the First World War. During the Second World War Australia's first pilot secured permission to teach flying in Brighton, and wrote, for the benefit of sundry charities ...

... d lagoon long enough for the British flagship to approach and sink her, has been brought up- to-date. The war is the Second World War the hero, a love-child born as the result of a casual mating in the First World War, is a Canadian serving with a British ...

... narrative unfolds dis passionately and without heroics, and forms a valuable contribution to this official series on the Second World War. From The Weaving Willow, by John Marshall (Hodder and Stoughton 7s. 6d.), in which an ardent cricketer reminds all other ...

... told, know of Winston Churchill's background his early days, and his kaleidoscopic career in the years leading up to the Second World War. The life-story of winston Chur chill makes fascinating reading. As a tribute to him in his 80th year, THE ILLUSTRATED ...

... conceal from careless readers the superficiality of the antiquated rationalism which he professed to the end. In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was ...

... told, know of Winston Churchill's background his early days, and his kaleidoscopic career in the years leading up to the Second World War. The life-story of winston chur- chill makes fascinating reading. As a tribute to him in his 80th year, THE ILLUSTRATED ...

... told, know of Winston Churchill's background his early days, and his kaleidoscopic career in the years leading up to the Second World War. The life-story of winston Chur chill makes fascinating reading. As a tribute to him in his 80th year, THE ILLUSTRATED ...