The War In Pictures - First Year

First year

Plot

All the vital events of the first twelve months of the World War - from the commencement of hostilities in September, 1939, to September, 1940, are here presented in dramatic photographs and drawings. This authentic record of world shaking battles and events possesses a breathless and compelling interest in every page.

Here are only a few of the many momentous happenings depicted in this book:

- How it all began
- Germany invades Poland
- Torpedoing of the Courageous
- Fall of Warsaw
- Raids on the Firth of Fourth
- Attempted Assasination of Hitler
- Rawampindi's Gallant fight with Deutschland
- First Great Naval Battle - the River Plate
- Scuttling of the Graf Spee
- H.M.S. Cossack rescues Altmark's prisoners
- Germany invades Denmark & Norway
- Battle of Narvik
- German Paratroops Land in Holland
- Nazi Terror in Belgium
- 30,000 killed in Rotterdam Bombing
- First Bombs on Britian
- British Troops leave France
- Evacuation from Dunkirk
- Fall of Paris
- Britain Prepares for Invasion
- Italy Declares War
- Britain Siezes French Fleet
- Blitzkrieg on London