Time The Weekly News Magazine Volume XLIII Number 5 January 31, 1944 hd

Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.104. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Weekly Timeline: January 24: The Allied forces have a major setback on the Gari River. In German-occupied Belgium, the Social Pact, detailing plans for post-war social reform, is secretly signed. 27: The Siege of Leningrad ended after 872 days, as Soviet forces finally forced the Germans to withdraw. Some 2 million died, mostly of starvation and disease. 28: The Russian Army completes encirclement of two German Army corps at the Korsun pocket, south of Kiev. Two-thirds of the Germans escape in the breakout next month with the loss of most heavy equipment. 30: The Japanese kill 44 suspected spies in the Homfreyganj massacre. : At Anzio, Italy the disastrous Battle of Cisterna took place, as MG John P. Lucas sent Darby's Rangers to begin the breakout from the beachhead. One of the four battalions in the action returned with only 6 of 767 men, the rest killed, wounded or captured. : The Brazzaville Conference begins in French Equatorial Africa. During the conference (which lasts until 8 February), the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) agrees to major reforms to the French colonial empire. .…