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Cover: The Invasion of Iwo Jima: U.S. Marines Storming the Beaches and Digging in on Suribachi Volcano After Capturing the Enemy Pill-Boxes. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Dismembered Masterpieces" by Thomas Bodkin; The Great World War: Allied Thrust to the Rhine; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Australia's Living Fossils. Pictorial Journals include: Scenes in Manila, The Philippine Capital Destroyed by the Retreating Japanese; General Crerar's Offensive: Allied Armour Driving into the Reichswald (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); General Crerar's Offensive: British Troops and Armour Fighting in the Centre of Cleve (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Battle of the Bridges: Important Rhine Crossings; The Allies' Great Victory of the Rhine from Wesel to Coblenz: A Bird's-Eye Map of the Terrain (Illus. by G.H. Davis); Munchen-Gladbach, Krefeld, and Neuss Fall to the U.S. Ninth Army; U.S. Ninth Army Drive: Scenes in Captured German Towns; Scenes of Bitter Fighting by the Canadian First Army and United Kingdom Forces: Victorious Progress to the Rhine Against Rundstedt's Crack Paratroopers; General Crerar's Offensive: British Infantry of the Canadian Army Penetrating Enemy Positions by Artificial Moonlight South of the Hochwald (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); General Crerar's Offensive: Scottish Medium Artillery Covering the Advance of British Tanks South of Goch (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Invasion of Iwo Jima; The Eastern Front: Some Captured Volkssturmers and Enemy Goods; The Eastern Front: Soviety Guns, Tanks, and Cavalry on the Move; Pagan, the Romantic City of Pagodas Again in British Hands; and Pagan, the Ancient Buddhist Capital of Burma: City of Five Thousand Colourful Pagodas and Sacred Shrines. Binding sound. Prior owners faint ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book