... When the German Army seized the Russian city of Pinsk in the Second World War, it made sure that its victory was recorded on the local matchboxes an example perhaps of German thoroughness, certainly of the peculiar appeal which matchboxes hold as a vehicle ...

... through with its History of the Second World War. So all in all, quite a week. Above At a reception held at the Imperial War Museum to launch the new British Printing Corporation series, History of the Second World War Sir John Hackett, Sir Basil Liddell ...

... performances of Giselle (above) and in one of the revised Cin derella. She first danced Giselle in the years preceding the Second World War when she tackled the great classic roles in succession Swan Lake, The Sleep ing Princess. Now, almost 30 years later ...

... d, blithering idiot. Either way he was endearing and the pros pect of seeing him transplanted from the First to the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht, with all that that implied of political significance, did not fill me with enthusiastic anticipation ...

... RECORD DF THE WEEK jTAuRiNG the second World War, Paul Fenoulhet served in the Royal Air Force, and it was then that he heard a W.A.A.F. singing. Many Service men and women sing, but this W.A.A.F. was different. Paul was impressed, and when the war was ...

... number ol years. His story is set against the Australian and international political scenes before, during and after the Second World War. He became Australian High Com missioner in London in 1933, Presi dent of the League of Nations Council, and Chairman ...

... Braille, and Sir Ian pays tribute by this photograph of his hands reading a Braille translation of Mr. Churchill's The Second World War. Apart from literature, Braille can be used for notes, speeches and memoranda. The eye, Sir Ian has said, is not the ...

... 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 ...

... just destruction and the seeds of further conflict To illustrate this, Foreman takes a group of combat soldiers i t ft Second World War from their first bombardment, and follows them across the battlefields of Europe. Each becomes involv til with a woman ...

... 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 ...

... the last. The subject of this epic is the von T rapp family, iapa and seven children who toured Europe just before the Second World War is a little singing group. Already the family las provided material for two films, both Serman and neither particularly ...