British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Minney, R.J. (ed), The War Illustrated, issues 1-85 [October 1939-August 1941], complete, together with approx 20 duplicates; Anon, The War in Pictures, Second Year, London, nd, 320pp, including evocative pictures of St Paul’s ablaze; Anon, The Battle of Britain August-October 1940, London, 1941, 32pp (2 copies, different format); Anon, Front Line 1940-41, London, 1942, 161pp; Anon, Combined Operations 1940-1942, London, 1943, 144pp; Anon, Ocean Front, the Story of the War in the Pacific 1941-44, London, 1945, 68pp; Anon, Report by the Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean…on the Italian Campaign…May to…December 1944, London, 1948, 92pp; Moore, G., Jean Bart, Resistance Leader, Huntingdon, 1982, 64pp; other publications (7), including six issues of Churchill’s The Great War [Lot]. Publishers’ bindings; a useful group of official contemporary literature for World War II £40-60

The War Illustrated, originally a threepenny weekly but later a fortnightly priced at fourpence, only ceased publication in August 1941 due to the reduction in paper supplies.