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Cover: Air Chief-Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory Conferring with General Montgomery. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Reviews: "China, My China" by H. Rattenbury and "China and Britain" by Sir J. Pratt; The Great World War: The Stroke Launched at Hitler; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Australia's Wool Effort. Pictorial Journals include: Bombing Used as a Super Artillery Barrage Before an Attack; The Ramparts and Moats of the "European Fortress": A Perspective Map of Continental Europe, Indicating Contours, as Viewed from the Ural Mountains, Looking Westward; Germany's "Human Torpedo" Compared with the British Version; British Offensive On the Western Front: Troops in Action, and a Map of the Normandy Battle Zone; Mr. Churchill Pays a Three-Day Visit to the Normandy Front; Germany's Internal Crisis: Leading Rebel and Pro-Hitler Generals; Battle Scene in Normandy; The Eastern Front: Russian Generals Directing the Westward Surge (inc. map); The Eastern Front: Aspects of the Red Army's Great Forward Drive; U.S. Troops Landing in Guam; The Capture of Saipan Island; Germany's Most Appalling Crime: The Ghastly Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane; Troglodytes of 1944: Some Aspects of Life in London's Deep Shelters; Sidelights on War - And the Peaceful Scene of Ruskin's House; and Army/Air Co-Ordination: A Mobile Control Unit of the 2nd T.A.F. (illustrated by Flight Lieut. H.W. Hailstone). Binding sound. Large clipping missing from page 139/140. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Some ink smudges to back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. Book