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Volume 1

Volume 1 - No. 1 - September 16, 1939

Volume 1 - No. 2 - September 23, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • To Arms! Poland's Fair Lands Invaded
  • Magnificent Heroism of the Poles at Westerplatte
  • Retreat - But Fighting All the Way: Poland's Heroic Defence of Her Historic Land
  • Gamelin - Man of the Moment
  • Nazi Germany Feels the Invader's Tread
  • 'They Shall Not Pass!' - Thanks to Maginot
  • Germany's Vaunted Western Wall
  • In the Hour of Britain’s Need and Danger
  • These Were Ready on the Civilian Front
  • Britain's Commanders by Land, Sea and Air
  • I Was There! - We Were Victims of Nazi Frightfullness
  • I Was There! - I Saw the First Raids on Warsaw
  • I Was There! - How Our Refugee Train Was Bombed
  • I Was There! - I Was in Munich on the Eve of War
  • There's A.R.P. in Germany, Too
  • Not Bombs But Leaflets for Germans
  • The Empire Rallies to the Motherland
  • The War-Maker Goes to the Eastern Front
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Hitler's Fantasy of Imperial Domination
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • It Is Said That...
  • Puerile Propaganda of the Nazi Peace-Breakers
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Our War Dictionary
  • Volunteers Who Serve Their Country

Volume 1 - No. 3 - September 30, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Poland's Stand for Freedom
  • Marshal Smigly Rydz-Poland's Leader
  • Warsaw Was in the Front Line of Fighting
  • Nazi Submarines Engage in Ocean-Wide Piracy
  • Gamelin's Hammer Blow at Nazi Western Forts
  • The Great Siegfried Line is Threatened
  • Poland's 'Brave and Resolute' Army in the Field
  • Murder Most Foul from the Air
  • This is the Way Nazis Made War
  • The Empire's Help in Fighting Hitler
  • The Empire Stands to Arms!
  • I Was There! - How We Bombed the Nazi Ships at Kiel
  • I Was There! - We Were Victims of the Nazi U-Boats
  • I Was There! - Our Trawlers Met a U-Boat
  • I Was There! - I Saw the Frenchmen Called Up
  • In Wartime France
  • Red Russia's Weight in the Scales of War
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • End of a Glorious Stand
  • Goering's Cold Cheer for Nazis
  • It Is Said That...
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Odd Facts About the War

Volume 1 - No. 4 - October 7, 1939

Volume 1 - No. 5 - October 14, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Poland Fought On, 'Bloody But Unbowed'
  • They Stood by Poland to the End
  • Soviet Power in the Ukraine, Baltic and Poland
  • Rumania's Premier Pays The Price
  • Daladier, the Strong Man of France
  • Watch and Ward on the West
  • How the People Were Numbered
  • How Britain is Winning the U-Boat War
  • Battleships Beat the Bombers
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Mr. Briton'll See It Through
  • Nazi Gangsters Bank the 'Swag'
  • America's First Reactions to the European War
  • Sir Nevile Among the Nazis
  • Women Leaders in the Nation's Effort
  • Changes in the London Scene: Then and Now
  • There is Safety in Sandbags
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • I Was There! - I Went Across with the 'New Contemptibles'
  • I Was There! - We Were Saved by R.A.F. Flying Boats
  • I Was There! - How We Escaped From Poland
  • I Was There! - The First Rescue by Seaplane in Naval History
  • I Was There! - I Saw Fighting from a Foreign Frontier
  • There Is Still Chivalry Between Fighting Airmen
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Free Peoples Rise
  • It Is Said That...
  • Our Who's Who of the War

Volume 1 - No. 6 - October 21, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Epic Siege and Fall of Warsaw
  • How Russia and Germany Shared the Spoil
  • Aerial Battles in the West
  • German Air Weapon at Work East and West
  • Uneasy Neighbours of the Soviet Power
  • Methods that Will Beat U-Boats
  • For H.M. Navy's 'Constant Care'
  • They Defy the U-Boats - and So Britain Lives
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Dutch and Belgians on the Alert
  • First Lord's Tonic for the Nation
  • Winston Churchill, 'Nazi Enemy No. 1'
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • The Good Old Horse Comes Back
  • Silent Sentries Await the Raiders
  • The Tank Idea Triumphs Again
  • I Was There! - 'Old Hitler Gave Me a Headache'
  • I Was There! - I Saw an Air-Liner Passenger Shot
  • I Was There! - With the French Troops in Germany
  • I Was There! - They Arrested Me as a German Spy
  • I Was There! - All U-Boat Commanders Are Not So Callous
  • Million A.A. Shells in the Making
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Fathers and Sons
  • It Is Said That...
  • Our Who's Who of the War

Volume 1 - No. 7 - October 28, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Poland Under the Heel of the Conqueror
  • 'A Very Curious War' in the West
  • If It's Contraband It Won't Get to Germany
  • Getting a Stranglehold on Nazi Commerce
  • With the Destroyers on Night Watch
  • British Submarine's Gallant Fight for Life
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • 'Wats' Carry on the Tradition of the 'Waacs'
  • Words That Hitler Has Eaten
  • Mussolini Plays a Neutral Hand
  • Cartoon Commentary on the Conflict
  • There Pictures Spell A.R.P.
  • Turkey Guards the Black Sea
  • They Fight Hitler Inside Germany
  • I Was There! - Bullets Whistled Past My Parachute
  • I Was There! - We Were Put Ashore by a U-Boat
  • I Was There! - We Flew From Warsaw in Makeshift 'Planes
  • I Was There! - The Nazi 'Planes were Joy-Riding
  • I Was There! - I Saw a Bomber Attack a U-Boat
  • Russia's New Footholds in the Baltic
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Crooked Cross
  • It Is Said That...
  • Odd Facts About the War

Volume 1 - No. 8 - November 4, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • A Permanent Picture Record of the Second Great War
  • Waiting for Zero Hour in the West
  • The Poles Pay the Price of Defeat
  • The Bolshevik Flood Reaches the Baltic
  • How the New B.E.F. Went to France
  • Britain's Supremacy in the Air
  • Britain Takes Toll of First Air Raiders
  • The Cavalry of the Skies in Training
  • The Tragedy of the 'Royal Oak'
  • No Easy Passage for the U-Boats
  • Chamberlain Meets the 'Peace Offensive'
  • Marshalling the Empire's Air Strength
  • How They Saw Each Other - 'Only Yesterday'!
  • Make-Believe - But Very Like the Real Thing
  • When Hitler Hoisted the Pirate's Flag
  • I Was There! - We Were Rescued from the 'Royal Oak'
  • I Was There! - What We Saw of the First Air Raid on Britain
  • I Was There! - I Followed Warsaw Raiders with My Camera
  • I Was There! - We Saw the U-Boat Captain a Prisoner
  • I Was There! - How We Dodged the British Navy
  • Our Diary of the War
  • It Is Said That...
  • Odd Facts About the War

Volume 1 - No. 9 - November 11, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • In Fifty Days They Didn't Drop a Bomb!
  • Luxemburg Fears Again for Her Neutrality
  • None But The Best for Britain's Army
  • Salute to Turkey, Our New Ally
  • Finland Resolved to Defend Her Heritage
  • Scandinavia's Rulers Take Counsel Together
  • Convoys are Safe with the Royal Navy
  • Nazi Bombers Brought Down by British Guns
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Nazi Poison Propaganda: The Great Gas Lie!
  • 'There will always be Misery', says Hitler
  • Germany Must Feel the Pinch of the Blockade
  • Mr. Hore-Belisha Talks About the War
  • The Man Who Got the Army Ready
  • How to tell Officers of Navy, Army and Air Force
  • I Was There! - How Our Convoy Beat the Nazi 'Planes
  • I Was There! - Two Days at Sea in a Rubber Boat
  • I Was There! - The Terror of a Blazing Oil Tanker
  • I Was There! - I Chased a British 'Plane Over My Home
  • I Was There! - We Strayed Into a North Sea Battle
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Voice of the Empire
  • It Is Said That...
  • Odd Facts About the War

Volume 1 - No. 10 - November 18, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • British Cavalry in France - 25 Years Ago and Today
  • Allies & Neutrals Await the Nazis
  • R.A.F. Rules the German Sky
  • How to Recognize German Raiders
  • It's Not so Easy to Bomb Britain!
  • Opening the Doors to America's Limitless Arsenal
  • The Famous Dover Patrol Carries On
  • Hitler Doomed to Failure Where Napoleon Failed
  • The Russian Riddle is Still an Enigma
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • How to Tell Non-commissioned Ranks of the Forces
  • Dramatic Story of Strasbourg's Great Exodus
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • Behind the Scenes in Nazi Prison Camps
  • Britain's First Bag of Prisoners of War
  • I Was There! - We Saw the First Air-Raid at Rosyth
  • I Was There! - They Were Shot Down in the Lammersmoors
  • I Was There! - We Watched a Duel in British Skies
  • I Was There! - Stars and Stripes Went to the Rescue
  • I Was There! - Saved One Crew While Seeking Another
  • Our Diary of the War
  • London
  • It Is Said That...
  • Wartime Abbreviations

Volume 1 - No. 11 - November 25, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Entente Cordiale in the Maginot Line
  • Here in Their Front Line are the 'Poilus'
  • While Here Are Nazis in Their 'Westwall'
  • Finland Stands Out Against the Soviet
  • The Empire Gets into Its Stride
  • At the Heart of Britain's Air Defence
  • The War's First Air Heroes Decorated by the King
  • Threatened With War They Appealed for Peace
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Despite the War Paris is Not So Gloomy
  • They Have Come Back to Blighty Already
  • Great Guns that Make Our Coasts Secure
  • In Wartime 'Q' is Big Business
  • 'In the End We Shall Break Their Hearts'
  • These Are the Tales the Nazis Spread About Us
  • I Was There! - Our Ships Fought Back at the U-Boats
  • I Was There! - I Commanded the Captured 'City of Flint'
  • I Was There! - I Saw Hitler's Rout at Munich
  • The Whole World Watched the Odyssey of this Ship
  • I Was There! - We Found a German 'Plane on the Hill
  • Who Was the Guy Fawkes in the Munich Cellar?
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Shroud of Gold
  • It Is Said That...
  • Odd Facts About the War

Volume 1 - No. 12 - December 2, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • 'Planes in Action Above the Halted War
  • Empire Pilot's Unique Feat in the Aerial War
  • Dutchmen Refuse to be Rattled
  • France Has a 'Silent' Navy Too
  • French Flyers in Spectacular Air Battle
  • Solitary Watchers of the Skies
  • British Science Is Helping to Win the War
  • 'Battle Practice' Oils the A.R.P. Machine
  • 'Royal Ordnance' Won't Let the Soldiers Down
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • The Navy, Too, Fights in the Air
  • Once More Convoy Safe Home in Port
  • 'The German Menace Will Be Broken'
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • Yet Another Sea Crime in the Nazi Score
  • I Was There! - The Fuehrer Had Just Left Us When...
  • I Was There! - We Saw the Jewish Pogrom in Germany
  • I Was There! - We Tried to Save Our Mined Destroyer
  • I Was There! - We Spent Five Days in the 'Deutschland'
  • I Was There! - Our Ship was Sunk by a Pocket Battleship
  • First Bombs Dropped on Britain in This War
  • Our Diary of the War
  • To The Dead
  • It Is Said That...
  • Easy French Phrases For British Soldiers - 1.

Volume 1 - No. 13 - December 9, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Once More the Great Adventure is Delayed
  • Young France Prepares for Air Battle
  • Poland Tastes the Bitterness of Defeat
  • Praque under the Bully's Bludgeon
  • Round the Clock in a Prison Camp
  • Their Majesties' Lead in Our War Effort
  • The King and Queen Inspect the Home Front
  • New Nazi Frightfulness Off Britain's Coasts
  • The Menace of the Hidden Mine
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Europe's Mastery is Germany's Dominant Aim
  • Britain's War Aims Stated by the Premier
  • Whe Germans Don't See the War as We Do
  • 'The Big Lie'
  • I Was There! - We Were On the Mined 'Simon Bolivar'
  • I Was There! - Sunk - But We Didn't Get Our Feet Wet
  • Badges of Proficiency and Trades in the Forces
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Secret Weapon
  • It Is Said That...
  • Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 2.

Volume 1 - No. 14 - December 16, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Raid and Reconnaissance in a Wintry Scene
  • Above Ground and Below in Germany's 'Westwall'
  • Swastika Over Britain: A Tale of Failure
  • These Are the Fighters That Routed the Raiders
  • Warsaw is Now a 'City of Dreadful Night'
  • Poland Still Lives and Fights in France
  • 'Everywhere Activity, Everywhere Mud'
  • Stalin Makes Foul War on Gallant Finland
  • Finland Defies the Russian Bully
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Things You May Not Know
  • Britain Hits Back at the Mine-Laying 'Planes
  • 'To Defend Freedom & To Establish Peace'
  • 'Rawalpindi' Went Down With Colours Flying
  • They Watch and Wait for Endless Hours
  • 'Mail Up!' is the Call Soldiers Like Most to Hear
  • I Was There! - We Scanned the Sea for Mines and U-Boats
  • I Was There! - Our Ship Could Not Sail Home
  • I Was There! - We Weathered A Gale in Open Boats
  • I Was There! - 'U-Boat Men Not All Heartless Murderers'
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Shadows on the Lake
  • Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 3.

Volume 1 - No. 15 - December 18, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Over the Top and Down Below with the Nazis
  • Three Months of War and Now Comes Winter
  • Finland Fights On in Snow and Ice
  • Germany the Real Betrayer of Finland
  • Red Tsar of the Kremlin
  • No Indiscriminate Air-Raids On Civilians - Yet
  • Stocking the Nation's Wartime Larder
  • Finland's Capital City Receives a Lesson in Soviet 'Frightfulness'
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Small Arms Great in Quality and Performance
  • How the British Soldier of 1939 Goes to War
  • The Winged Lion Soars Over Heligoland
  • 'Carry On and Dread Nought'
  • Britain's Answer to Germany's Mine Campaign
  • Stockholm Now Lies Under the Shadow of War
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • I Was There! - We Manned the Guns of the 'Rawalpindi'
  • I Was There! - A Polish Destroyer Rescued Us
  • I Was There! - We Drifted for a Week Without a Compass
  • I Was There! - An Aeroplane Raced to Our Help
  • Skill and Qualification Badges: Navy and Army
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Afterwards
  • It Is Said That...
  • Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 4.

Volume 1 - No. 16 - December 23, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Viscount Gort is At Home to His Majesty
  • The King Goes Up The Line
  • Finland's Heroic Resistance Surprises the World
  • Scandinavia is Shaken by War's Thunder
  • This Nazi 'Plane Will Drop No More Mines
  • Unravelling the Tangle of the Balkan Pattern
  • There's a Place in the Line for the Air Cadets
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • The Christmas Spirit: in '39 as in '14
  • The Wartime Theatre Defies the Black-out
  • Over Thirty-five but Not Too Old to Serve!
  • We Have the Men - We Have the 'Planes
  • 'We are Masters: As Masters We Behave'
  • 'Graf Spee' is Brought to Bay
  • I Was There! - I Saw Horrible Sights in Helsinki
  • I Was There! - A Nazi Tank Slew My Wife in Poland
  • I Was There! - We Escaped Torpedo, Fire and Shipwreck
  • I Was There! - The Maire Who Welcomed the King
  • Now It Can Be Told: Epic Story of the 'Orzel'
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Par Nobile Fratrum
  • Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 5.

Volume 1 - No. 17 - December 29, 1939

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Britain's Army Is in the Front Line Again
  • Finland Was Not Stalin's Birthday Present
  • No 'Picnic' in Finland for the Red Army
  • British Submarines' Best Week - So Far
  • They Singed the Fuehrer's Moustache!
  • 'The Glorious Battle of the River Plate'
  • 'Incredible Audacity' Wins the Day for Britain
  • Some Secrets of the Convoys Revealed
  • The Commonsense View of Gas Attacks
  • Poland is the Nazis' Jig-Saw
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • I Was There! - We Flew from Germany on Clipped Wings
  • I Was There! - I Saw The 'Graf Spee' Attacked
  • I Was There! - We Were Prisoners On the 'Graf Spee'
  • I Was There! - I Scuttled My Ship to Avoid Capture
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 6

Volume 1 - No. 18 - January 5, 1940

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • 'Brains Trust' of the R.A.F. in France
  • Britain Greets the New Year with a Cheer
  • 'All Members of the Great Family of Nations'
  • Finland's Vantage in Arctic War
  • Who is Fighting Whom?
  • Greatest Air Battle in History
  • 'Non Belligerency' Is Italy's Name For It
  • The King Honours the Brave and the Fair
  • They Were Targets of the Nazi Air Murderers
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • 'Tin Hats' for the Heads of Britain's Defenders
  • They 'Scuttle' - Because That's the Nazi Way
  • Ursula's Exploit in 'Hitler's Cabbage Patch'
  • Bombs are the Real Danger in Air Raids
  • Balloons Now Float Above Britain's Seas
  • 'Silver Fish' Provide Work for Clever Hands
  • I Was There! - We Saw The Canadians Land in England
  • I Was There! - We Had Scuttling Drill on the 'Columbus'
  • I Was There! - Our Trawlers Were Bombed From the Air
  • Why the Nazis Want to 'Deify' Hitler
  • Last Scenes of All in the Battle of the River Plate
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Dachau
  • It Is Said That...
  • Odd Facts About the War

Volume 1 - No. 19 - January 12, 1940

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • What is the Front Line Really Like?
  • Air Heroes of Two Wars Now Sleep Side by Side
  • Brains Triumph over Brute Masses in Finnish War
  • Finland Has Her 'Lawrence of the North'
  • New Zealand Hastens to Help the Motherland
  • Britain's Shipwrights Are Outpacing the Nazis
  • Terrible Things are Happening Under the Nazis
  • 'Graf Spee' Pays the Full Price of Defeat
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Land-Ships of Which Britain May Rightly Be Proud
  • Striking the Balance of the Blockade
  • Lifeboatmen Rise to the New Challenge of War
  • Without Oil the Wheels of War Must Stop
  • Germany's 'Gates' Are Closing One by One
  • The 'Bloodstained Criminals' Court Each Other
  • I Was There! - We Tried to Save Half Our Ship
  • I Was There! - How I Bombed A German Submarine
  • I Was There! - I Drove Over a Finnish Field of Victory
  • I Was There! - My Ship Broke Clean in Half
  • Horse and Mule Keep Going When Motors Stop!
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Filius Ultor

Volume 1 - No. 20 - January 19, 1940

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Europe's Map Saw Many Changes in 1939
  • Germany Lost That War: How Can She Win This?
  • In Finland's Snows Stalin's 'Comrades' Perish
  • Stalin's Grip on the Baltic is Tightened
  • Women Work and Die for Finland
  • Come Aboard One of Our Aircraft Carriers!
  • Where is the Ark Royal? - Why, Here She Is!
  • We Shan't Win the War by 'Wishful Thinking'!
  • Heroes of Wartime Black-out - Unseen & Unsung
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Things You May Not Know
  • Hunter and Hunted in the Submarine War
  • The Modern Mine is a Double-Edged Weapon
  • Australia's Airmen Now Comrades of the R.A.F.
  • How Big a Threat is Germany's Air Force?
  • 'What Are We To Do To Win This War?'
  • I Was There! - We Saw Our 'Planes Bomb a U-Boat
  • I Was There! - Our Three Bombers Fought Twelve Fighters
  • I Was There! - We Were Torpedoed on Christmas Day
  • I Was There! - How We Escorted a Merchant Convoy
  • Our Diary of the War
  • He Leaves - But His Work Lives On

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