Volume 2 - No. 31 - April 5, 1940
Apr1940
Jottings from My Wartime Diary
How true is the saying that all good things have "the defects of their qualities!" To have many good friends is a thing to delight in and also a thing that must bring sorrow. My long and richly intere
Apr1940
Death Taught the Red Army How to Win
So great were the Red Army’s reserves at the beginning of the Finnish war that in some quarters they were hailed as proof of deep-seated inefficiency. This may as may be, but it is certain that the
Apr1940
The War May Cost Ten Millions a Day
Here we have a chapter on the financial aspect of the war-on the all-important subject of how it is being paid for, or will be paid for in the future. Written by E. Royston Pike of The War Illustrated
Apr1940
New Zealand Welcomes 'Achilles' Home
New Zealand was intensely and justifiably proud of the great part played by the Dominion's cruiser, H.M.S. "Achilles", in the battle of the River Plate, and the ship's welcome home on February 23, 194
Full index of this magazine
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Ringing Down the Curtain on the Finnish War
- Death Taught the Red Army How to Win
- On the Fringes of the War: Rumania
- The War May Cost Ten Millions a Day
- New Zealand Welcomes 'Achilles' Home
- Words That History Will Remember
- 'We Fight for a Durable & Moral Peace'
- From Scapa to Sylt: The R.A.F. Hits Back
- There's Always a Rush to Man the Lifeboat
- I Was There! - We Got 100 per cent Success at Sylt
- I Was There! - I Watched the R.A.F. 'Fireworks' at Sylt
- Scapa and Sylt: The Bombers Get Through
- The Magnetic Mine is Defeated
- Our Diary of the War
- The Things My Readers Tell Me
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