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Cover: Battle of the Cherbourg Peninsula. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The Face Without a Frown" by Iris Leveson Gower; The Great World War: Assault on the Fortress; General Sir Harold Alexander: His Career and Achievements; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Insect Pests of Fruit. Pictorial Journals include: Shopping in Liberated France: Well-Stocked Window Displays; The German Flying Bomb: A Diagram and the Robot in Action; German Launching Stations in France Bombed by the R.A.F.; The Landings of the U.S. Forces in Normandy: A Panoramic Sketch; Cherbourg - Scene of Allied First Decisive Victory in France (illustrated by G.H. Davis); War's Devastation: Wrecked Equipment and Shattered Towns and Villages in the Path of the Normandy Battles; Phases in the Battle of France Which Led Up to the Final Assault on the Port of Cherbourg; "Cutting the Corner": Tanks Open Fire Through the Walls of a Street Corner House in Villers Bocage (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); Maps of the Fighting Fronts in Europe, Burma, and the Pacific Ocean; An Unfinished Flying-Bomb Site Captured in the Cherbourg Peninsula; With the Victorious Allied Armies as They Drive Onward to Italy; The Growing Might of America's Sea and Air Fleets in the Pacific; The Ingenious Bailey Bridge, Which Rapidly Spans Rivers and Chasms; Views of Ancient Perugia, Now Firmly in Allied Hands; and Beautiful Renaissance Gardens of the Villa D'Este at Trivoli (illustrated by Sir Muirhead Bone). Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book