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Cover: The Battered Belgian Town of Houffalize. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Britain in Pictures" series; The Great World War: The Second Stage on the Eastern Front (inc map); Books of the Day; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and The World of Science: The Last Ice Ages in Russia. Pictorial Journals include: Mortars Firing "Flying Dustbins", Demolition "Beehives" (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Night Retreat of German Guns: Pictures from the Western Front; British Troops in Action in the Snow: The Occupation of Heinsberg; U.S. First Army Takes St. Vith; Masters of a Difficult Technique - Mosquitoes in Norwegian Fjords; Liberated Warsaw - Largely in Ruins; Inside a Modern British Cruiser (Illus. by Lieut. Stephen Bone); The Russian Hurricane Offensive into Germany: Important Cities and Industrial Centres Captured by their Arms; German Pockets Still Resisting in Liberated France (inc. maps); Community Heating: A System Which Keeps an Entire Town Warm (illus. by G.H. Davis); Damaged Naples Churches Repaired in the Face of all Difficulties; and Typifying the Trend of Russian Art in General: An Exhibition of Soviet Graphic Art in London. Page 115/116 missing. Page 137/138 loose but present with moderate wear. A very small soil spot to pages 126 - 130 inclusive. Moderate wear. A sound reference copy. Book