... 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 ...

... century; then came the great combination of A. Elton and Dick Pemberton up to 1914; Jimmy Giles, just before the second World War. carried on the tradition. The present captain, Ivor Preece, also captained England in the last two inter national matches ...

... now entered upon its second year at the Whitehall, has proved to be the most, suc cessful of all plays inspired by the second World War. Giving due credit to all tlie rest of its clever cast and to the skill of its journalist-author, R. F. Delderfield, ...

... DESERT MAC I couldn't help feeling a thrill when I went down to Sussex to talk to one of Britain's greatest leaders in the Second World War, Field-Marshal Earl Macmillan of Mersa Matruh. Everybody's heard of The Desert Macs. Everybody knows his laconic re ...

... understand until it is too late. Major Anderson, a British Regular Army officer, is posted to Korea after his service in the Second World War with the Parachute Regiment. He trains and leads guerilla bands of British, American and Korean paratroops in daring ...

... may wrangle ova Five Fingers whether to catalogue it under popular entertainment forms or history of espionage in the Second World War. For the film balances on .the borderline between fact and fiction. Either way, it is extremely entertaining. Realism ...

... true tradition of the public Press of this land; it was in harmony with the conduct of many soldier-newspaper-men in the second World War who (within my own knowledge) gave up their more-than-deserved leave while in far-off places to help produce Army newspapers ...

... possessed. A cordial union of two such men made the Turks' position hopeless from the outset. The desert campaigns in the second World War produced no figure comparable with Shaw or, as he then was, Lawrence since at no time was any considerable body of Arabs ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...