The Illustrated London News: Marching to War 1933-1939

The Illustrated London News: Marching to War 1933-1939 with an introduction by Martin Gilbert the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Foreword by James Bishop editor-in-chief, The Illustrated London News. Published by Bracken Books an imprint of Bestseller Publications Ltd, London W1, with permission of The Illustrated London News. Copyright © Bestseller Publications Ltd. 1989. ISBN 1 85170 265 2

Taken from the publisher’s note “Marching to War is a distillation of 364 issues of The Illustrated London News published between the years 1933 to 1939. It provides a balanced view of this momentous period of history concentrating on the events, places and people of consequence but also including insights into the social history of the period.”

192 page large format clothbound book (238mm x 340mm) with red lettering and intact dust jacket. The contents after the foreword and introduction are arranged chronologically. The last two pages provide an index. There are numerous archive photographs, with some drawings, maps and diagrams and excerpts from articles of the time.

There is some very minor discolouration to the page edges, otherwise virtually as new.