Time The Weekly News Magazine Volume XXXVII Number 16, May 12, 1941 hd

Luce, Henry R., et al

Published by Time & Life, New York, 1941

About this Item

Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 100. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Weekly Timeline: May 5: Five years from the day he was forced to flee, Emperor Haile Selassie enters Addis Ababa, his capital, in triumph. 6: With much of the Iraqi air force destroyed and facing regular bombardment themselves, the Iraqi ground forces besieging RAF Habbaniya withdraw. 7 : The Luftwaffe arranges to send a small force to Iraq. . Between Habbaniya and Fallujah, two Iraqi columns are caught in the open and attacked by roughly forty British aircraft; the Iraqis suffer heavy casualties. 8: Heavy convoy losses in the Atlantic continue; however, one U-boat (U-110) is captured by the British navy and another copy of the "Enigma" machine is discovered and saved. It will help to turn the fortunes in the Atlantic battle. . Bombing of Nottingham by the Luftwaffe. 9: A Japanese brokered peace treaty signed in Tokyo ends the French-Thai War. 10: Rudolf Hess is captured in Scotland after bailing out of his plane; his self-appointed mission was to make peace with the United Kingdom. . The United Kingdom's House of Commons is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. Other targets are Hull, Liverpool, Belfast, and the shipbuilding area of the River Clyde in Scotland. This is close to the end of the Blitz, as Germany shifts its focus toward Soviet Union and the East. . The "Strike of the 100,000" begins in Liège in Belgium on the anniversary of the German invasion of 1940. It soon spreads across the whole province until nearly 70,000 workers are on strike. In exceptionally good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time The Weekly News Magazine Volume XXXVII Number 16, May 12, 1941 hd
• Publisher: Time & Life, New York
• Publication Date: 1941
• Binding: Paperbound
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • History World War II