... 10,000,000 Medals By Guy Livingston THREE years after the cease fire, the special medals awarded for the Second World War are ready for distribution. To each one of the millions who were mobilized in the defence or fighting forces between 1939 and 1945 ...

... 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 churchill makes fascinating reading. As a tribute to him in his 80th year, THE ILLUSTRATED ...

... years after the first momentous crossing by the English aviators Alcock and Whitten- Brown. Yet experience gained in the second .world war has meant that the family can now walk on board an air liner bound from London airport to New York with no more apprehension ...

... happened in Germany five years after the first World War could happen in England five, ten or fifteen years after the second World War, it is pitched low, very low. In October, 1919, I exchanged one British pound for 100 marks in Cologne, and paid for ...

... 10s. 6d.). And how affecting it is, when you've known the first World War and its literature, to find a novel of the second World War essentially the same in tough comradeship, cussing, sex- talk, fighting, bravery almost as if Time had hiccupped. No ...

... cases at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where all the original models now rest, and they will say, 44 In the second world war, the women of Britain, despite everything, dressed in faultless taste.*' 1. Royal blue woollen, with red buttons, unusually ...

... German warrior hordes were to try? again under new war leaders. But that is another story?, and the decisive battle of the Second World War has y?et perhaps to be fought. A ...

... anybody's guess. From peace and private citizens to war (or its aftermath) and public figures. Though, at the end of the second World War, fate and the Allies caught up with most of Germany's leaders, a couple of top Nazis remained uncaptured Martin Bormann ...

... since been named R. L. Stevenson Avenue. Unfortunately the house was destrc^ed by enemy action, a land mine, during the second World War. My memory of Skerryvore is of a pleasant villa residence standing a little way back from the road, in a secluded garden ...

... Mr. Greenwood I made the speech of his (People :ake cover in St. James's Park at the first lair-raid warning of the second World War September (Continued from page g) Mr. Chamberlain came back from his fishing in Scotland. The British Military Mission ...

... post-war costume. They went long again in the early thirties and did not become short once more until the eve of the second World War. They were violently denounced by religious and moral leaders, as Fashion's extremes always are, but with the usual result ...

... final dramatic talks in the Bavarian capital, with Daladier and Mussolini at the table too. The Allied conferences of the second World War have, with these three, passed into history. From the 1941 Atlantic meeting to the Yalta conference of 1945 they stand ...