... The First Attempt by a Sphere Artist to Depict a Tank Battle on the Russian Front, and the Methods of Attack and Defence, with Aircraft Co-operating on Both Sides IN scores of official communiques from both sides describing the fighting on the Eastern front, we have been told of the fierce battles which have taken place in such and such an area, and how mechanised assaults on certain ...

... BOMBERS of BERLIN The New Avro Manchesters LONDON PRIDE is one of the new Manchesters which took part in a recent raid on Berlin. It had jockeyed for position above its target in central Berlin-- the General Post Office. Before releasing its load it was held for three or four minutes by a cone of about fifty searchlights. In the officer s own words We were being peppered with flak and had ...

... Other Things Than War Calls From, and To, the Past Some Famous Couples and Some Clergymen Correspondents THE CALL FROM THE PAST.-- I had a letter the other day from a lady whose surname seemed familiar. She had been reading a book of mine recently published. My name, it appears, sounded familiar in her ears. She wrote to ask if I were her dead brother s friend of that name. She had been ...

... PANZER WARFARE of TO-DAY-II The Counter-Attack is Developed Tin incidents should be taken in numerical order. A small arrow has been affixed to each circle pointing towards the next number to be consulted. 'Phe river which is seen in the foreground of Diagram i KT (on p. 271) is shown at the head of this drawing. And the taction is now being continued. Increased congestion has taken K place on ...

... The GREAT OFFENSIVE in LIBYA Where the British Forces have Launched a Big Push against the Combined German and Italian Armies in Cyrenaica TWO FAMOUS BROTHERS-- Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, C.-in-C., Mediterranean Fleet, and Lieut. -Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, Commander of the newly-formed Eighth Army The latter is fifty-five years of age, and is in command of the Libyan forces he is the ...

... The SECOND CAMPAIGN in LIBYA Where British-Imperial Forces are Now Ranged Against the German and Italian Enemy ON November 18, British and Allied forces, after careful preparation, advanced against the Axis forces which for over six months have been a threatening factor on the Egyptian frontier. The enemy's main defensive line, the northern part of which had been heavily fortified, extendi ...

... The NEW MILITARY LEADERS The Recent Changes in the Army High Command and the General Staff The military changes announced last week, which may have appeared to some as somewhat disconnected, take on a very different aspect when they are set out in diagrammatic fashion. What is apt to be termed a reshuffle now assumes a more logical aspect. The movements seen on the left, for instance, indicate ...

... pVER since the entry of Russia into the war, comn nt has been made on the weather and the effect of the vussian winter on military operations. Mr. Maisky, among others, has pointed out that General Winter must not be relied on too much as an ally, yet the general weather conditions n w pre vailing in Russia are having an effect, and a big one, on the German military plans. It is well known, ...

... BRAVING ATLANTIC TEMPESTS TO BRING SUPPLIES IN CONVOY TO GREAT BRITAIN, so THAT SHE AND HER ALLIES MAY CONTINUE TO STRIKE THE ENEMY WHEREVER HE IS ENCOUNTERED, AS MR. CHURCHILL RECENTLY DECLARED Bringing war supplies of ail kinds to Great Britain in Convoy in wartime is no easy task at the best of times but when gales of wind and rain, reaching almost hurricane force, descend upon the Convoy ...

... The Giant SUPERSTRUCTURE of a Modern MAN-OF-WAR The Massive Midship Section of the New King George V Class The drawing reproduced here, by Mr. McDowell, is an artist's impression of the towering mass of steel which is the modern counter part in a battleship of the cruiser's and the destroyer's bridge. It has been prepared to show how this huge mass towers up towards the sky, cul minating in ...

... Behind the Battle of Britain The Role of the Home Civil Defence Services Described By K. W. C. SINCLAIR-LOU TIT NEVER was so much owed by so many to so few. The truth of these words strikes home whenever September-October, 1940 comes up in retrospect. The few who gallantly fought off the German air fleets as they came to bomb London did so in an isolation which makes their gallantry all the ...

... The Noble Profession is Still Flourishing, But all its Prominent Exponents are Now Serving with the Armed Forces. Here is a Wartime Review of Boxers, Referees, Promoters and Others in the Fight-Game By CHARLES GRAVES THE manly art of fisticuffs is wisely encouraged by the heads of the three Fighting Services: They know that aggressiveness, quick reactions, stamina, resourcefulness and fitness ...