Lot 23:
A Group of Vintage The War Papers Weekly Magazine Collection Parts 46 to 59
Description
A collection of vintage illustrated magazines titled The War Papers, published in weekly parts. This group includes a sequence of fourteen issues, specifically Part 46 through to Part 59. The publication is a historical series produced in the United Kingdom, designed to document the events of the Second World War through reproductions of contemporary newspaper reports, maps, and photographs.
Each issue is a staple-bound periodical with illustrated paper covers. The cover price printed on each issue indicates wide distribution, listing 30p for the UK, 80c for Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, 24c for Malta, $2 for Singapore, and $1 for the US and Canada. The contents of this specific group cover the latter stages of the war in 1944-1945 and its immediate aftermath.
Notable issues within this group include:
Part 46: TIRPITZ SUNK!
Part 47: BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Part 48: 1945: THE YEAR OF WAR AND PEACE
Part 49: DRESDEN
Part 52: LINK-UP (Torgau meeting of US and Russian forces)
Part 53: HITLER DEAD
Part 54: VE DAY
Part 56: Features a cover photograph of Stalin, Truman, and Churchill and indicates a pull-out poster is included.
Part 57: TOP SECRET (Atomic bomb/Groves Project)
Part 58: THE INDEX Part 1-57
Part 59: JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBURG
Several issues bear a handwritten ownership inscription reading GOULD in ink on the upper front margin, including Parts 46, 50, 55, and 56.
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