Why the Owl Has Big EarsBiblio.com
Various ContributorsMareMagnum
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, February 6, 1943
194328 pages. Features: Cover Photo of Roosevelt and Churchill seated together at Casablanca attending what was later described by the President the "Unconditional Surrender" meeting; Chiefs of Staff at Casablanca Conference discuss problems while the President and Prime Minister decide 1943 Strategy - 12 photos with captions; Amazing aerial photo of an airfield literally plowed up by the enemy in the Middle East; Two Great Soviet Deeds - Leningrad Relieved and Stalingrad Cleared - five photos; Personalities and Recent Events; Closing Up in Tunisia - article by Cyril Falls; Six-photo feature on "A Weapon Which Has Come to the Fore in This War - The Land Mine"; The Ears of the Army - Seven Photos of "Signals" Laying Cables in Forward Areas; Photos of General Alexander, Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Forces; Photos of - "the Regent of Iraq and the little boy-King Feisal II inspecting a guard of honour at Baghdad Airport, Commander F.A. Worsley, His Highness the Maharajah of Kikanir, Viscount Maitland - son of the Earl of Lauderdale - K.I.A., Haile Selassie; Photo of Roosevelt in Jeep with President Vargas of Brazil; Large photo of Churchill and President Inonu of Turkey conferring during their rail-coach discussions; Centerfold map of Northern Tunisia - the Terrain and Communications where the Axis is faced by three Allied Armies and Montgomery's Advance from the South; Two-pages of illustrations related to "The Problem of the U-Boat Menace - the Case for and Against building Faster Cargo-ships capable of 15 knots as against the present average of about 11 knots; A page of great miscellaneous war photos; Stone Column unveiled in Belfast to Commenorate First Landing of U.S. Forces; The Massacre of the Innocents - the Burial of Lewisham's Child Victims; The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria - article by S.F. Nadel; Full-page photo of a ghostlike member of the Archconfraternity of Mercy collecting money in the street prior to an execution in Malta; Malta's Ordeal - a fine tribute paid by the screen to the men and women of the George Cross Island - twelve photos; The Troglodyte Dwellings of Southern Tunisia - Matmata - Underground town near the Mareth Line - ten photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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