... Davics's book of his experiences during his term in the Soviet capital, and the ferment of events which preceded the second World War. We give here parallel figures of this dramatic piece of history the chief personalities in real life, and their film ...

... 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 ...

... not only of being and creating history. out oj writing u with equal genius in the first volume of his memoirs of the Second World War, 4 The Gathering Storm.1 11 SI GE. To a rising star. Michael Denison 44 For his staccato realism and hid len humanitarianism ...

... (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 42s), which is described as an international scrapbook of people and places since the end of the Second World War. It is, as well, what Cecil Beaton himself describes as a compilation a wonderful record of life in all its variety ...

... the regiment from the time when it was founded by Charles II when he was in exile at Bruges, up to and including the Second World War. The Queen has lent a number of exhibits and paintings from the Royal Collection. The Dukes of Marl borough and of Wellington ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... our listening grandchildren, until we publish all our tea-party twaddle in two large green volumes under the title The Second World War: Personal Experiences. And then there will be another Colonel in the field. But it hasn't been (historically) a bad ...

... 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 ...

... contentedly almost the whole of the years between the wars, enjoying the best duck shooting in Euroj5e. He started the Second World War in command of our Military a1 Mission in Poland, where he had a rough ride cropped up again as a Force Commander in Norway ...

... Commandant of a Red Cross detachment, and was on duty during the first air raid, the Zeppelin attack in May 1917. In the Second World War she broadcast a series of talks she wrote her self, organised and worked in a canteen for military police, and helped ...