The War Illustrated - Volume 1
Below are some articles from this famous World War Two magazine. Some articles have already been added, others will be added in the future.
This is the index of volume 1, see for other volumes our volume index.
Volume 1 - No. 1 - September 16, 1939
- Jottings from the Editor's Wartime Diary
- Why We Are At War
- Britain's First Air Raid Warnings
- Britain is at Full Strength by Air Land and Sea
- Britain's Home Defences Were All Ready
- Britain's War Cabinet
- The Children's Trek to Safety
- A Triumph of British Civilian Organization
- The Dastardly Sinking of the 'Athenia'
- Britain's Royal Navy
- Danzig and the Men Who Betrayed It
- Poland Resolute Against the German Might
- Odd Facts About The War
- Hitler's Six-year Campaign of Lies
- The two 'Scraps of Paper'
- These Men Sought War
- And These Are They Who Sought Peace
- Words That History Will Remember
- Slavs and Slaves Shake Hands
- Germany on the Eve of the Nazi Betrayal
- The Audacious Raid - R.A.F. Bombs German Fleet
- Our Diary of the War
- The Volunteers Who Serve Their Country
Volume 1 - No. 2 - September 23, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- To Arms! Poland's Fair Lands Invaded
- Magnificent Heroism of the Poles at Westerplatte
- Retreat - But Fighting All the Way: Poland's Heroic Defence of Her Historic Land
- Gamelin - Man of the Moment
- Nazi Germany Feels the Invader's Tread
- 'They Shall Not Pass!' - Thanks to Maginot
- Germany's Vaunted Western Wall
- Air Raids and Warnings: Facts to Remember
- These Were Ready on the Civilian Front
- Britain's Commanders by Land, Sea and Air
- I Was There! - We Were Victims of Nazi Frightfullness
- I Was There! - I Saw the First Raids on Warsaw
- I Was There! - How Our Refugee Train Was Bombed
- I Was There! - I Was in Munich on the Eve of War
- There's A.R.P. in Germany, Too
- Not Bombs But Leaflets for Germans
- The Empire Rallies to the Motherland
- The War-Maker Goes to the Eastern Front
- Words That History Will Remember
- Hitler's Fantasy of Imperial Domination
- Odd Facts About the War
- It Is Said That...
- Puerile Propaganda of the Nazi Peace-Breakers
- Our Diary of the War
- Our War Dictionary
- Volunteers Who Serve Their Country
Volume 1 - No. 3 - September 30, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Poland's Stand for Freedom
- Marshal Smigly Rydz-Poland's Leader
- Warsaw Was in the Front Line of Fighting
- Nazi Submarines Engage in Ocean-Wide Piracy
- Gamelin's Hammer Blow at Nazi Western Forts
- The Great Siegfried Line is Threatened
- Poland's 'Brave and Resolute' Army in the Field
- Murder Most Foul from the Air
- This is the Way Nazis Made War
- The Empire's Help in Fighting Hitler
- The Empire Stands to Arms!
- I Was There! - How We Bombed the Nazi Ships at Kiel
- I Was There! - We Were Victims of the Nazi U-Boats
- I Was There! - Our Trawlers Met a U-Boat
- I Was There! - I Saw the Frenchmen Called Up
- In Wartime France
- Red Russia's Weight in the Scales of War
- Words That History Will Remember
- End of a Glorious Stand
- Goering's Cold Cheer for Nazis
- It Is Said That...
- Our Diary of the War
- Our War Gazetteer
- Odd Facts About the War
Volume 1 - No. 4 - October 7, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Poland: The First Phase Ends
- Poland Has Died Before - To Rise Again
- Britain Won't Go Hungry in this War
- Women Take Over in Paris and London
- Winning the Fight Against U-Boats
- The New Watch on the Rhine
- The Lads of '39 off to the Western Front
- 'Tiger' Gort - Commander-in-Chief, B.E.F.
- Britain's Effort Gains Speed
- British Knights of the Air
- I Was There! - I Jumped from the Sinking "Courageous"
- I Was There! - We Were on 'Courageous' When She Was Hit
- I Was There! - 'Tommy' Lands in France Again
- I Was There! - I Bombed a U-Boat from the Air
- Paravanes Spell Safety in a Minefield
- Hitler's S O S to the Jews
- Himmler - The Man Germany Fears
- The Soviet Plays 'Jackal to the Nazi Lion'
- Words That History Will Remember
- Czechs Raise Standard of Revolt
- Our Diary of the War
- 1939
- It Is Said That...
- Making the Best of a Black Business
- Odd Facts About the War
Volume 1 - No. 5 - October 14, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Poland Fought On, 'Bloody But Unbowed'
- They Stood by Poland to the End
- Soviet Power in the Ukraine, Baltic and Poland
- Rumania's Premier Pays The Price
- Daladier, the Strong Man of France
- Watch and Ward on the West
- How the People Were Numbered
- How Britain is Winning the U-Boat War
- Battleships Beat the Bombers
- Words That History Will Remember
- Our War Gazetteer
- Mr. Briton'll See It Through
- Nazi Gangsters Bank the 'Swag'
- America's First Reactions to the European War
- Sir Nevile Among the Nazis
- Women Leaders in the Nation's Effort
- Changes in the London Scene: Then and Now
- There is Safety in Sandbags
- Odd Facts About the War
- I Was There! - I Went Across with the 'New Contemptibles'
- I Was There! - We Were Saved by R.A.F. Flying Boats
- I Was There! - How We Escaped From Poland
- I Was There! - The First Rescue by Seaplane in Naval History
- I Was There! - I Saw Fighting from a Foreign Frontier
- There Is Still Chivalry Between Fighting Airmen
- Our Diary of the War
- The Free Peoples Rise
- It Is Said That...
- Our Who's Who of the War
Volume 1 - No. 6 - October 21, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Epic Siege and Fall of Warsaw
- How Russia and Germany Shared the Spoil
- Aerial Battles in the West
- German Air Weapon at Work East and West
- Uneasy Neighbours of the Soviet Power
- Methods that Will Beat U-Boats
- For H.M. Navy's 'Constant Care'
- They Defy the U-Boats - and So Britain Lives
- Words That History Will Remember
- Our War Gazetteer
- Dutch and Belgians on the Alert
- First Lord's Tonic for the Nation
- Winston Churchill, 'Nazi Enemy No. 1'
- Odd Facts About the War
- The Good Old Horse Comes Back
- Silent Sentries Await the Raiders
- The Tank Idea Triumphs Again
- I Was There! - 'Old Hitler Gave Me a Headache'
- I Was There! - I Saw an Air-Liner Passenger Shot
- I Was There! - With the French Troops in Germany
- I Was There! - They Arrested Me as a German Spy
- I Was There! - All U-Boat Commanders Are Not So Callous
- Million A.A. Shells in the Making
- Our Diary of the War
- Fathers and Sons
- It Is Said That...
- Our Who's Who of the War
Volume 1 - No. 7 - October 28, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Poland Under the Heel of the Conqueror
- 'A Very Curious War' in the West
- If It's Contraband It Won't Get to Germany
- Getting a Stranglehold on Nazi Commerce
- With the Destroyers on Night Watch
- British Submarine's Gallant Fight for Life
- Words That History Will Remember
- 'Wats' Carry on the Tradition of the 'Waacs'
- Words That Hitler Has Eaten
- Mussolini Plays a Neutral Hand
- Cartoon Commentary on the Conflict
- There Pictures Spell A.R.P.
- Turkey Guards the Black Sea
- They Fight Hitler Inside Germany
- I Was There! - Bullets Whistled Past My Parachute
- I Was There! - We Were Put Ashore by a U-Boat
- I Was There! - We Flew From Warsaw in Makeshift 'Planes
- I Was There! - The Nazi 'Planes were Joy-Riding
- I Was There! - I Saw a Bomber Attack a U-Boat
- Russia's New Footholds in the Baltic
- Our Diary of the War
- The Crooked Cross
- It Is Said That...
- Odd Facts About the War
Volume 1 - No. 8 - November 4, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Waiting for Zero Hour in the West
- The Poles Pay the Price of Defeat
- The Bolshevik Flood Reaches the Baltic
- How the New B.E.F. Went to France
- Britain's Supremacy in the Air
- Britain Takes Toll of First Air Raiders
- The Cavalry of the Skies in Training
- The Tragedy of the 'Royal Oak'
- No Easy Passage for the U-Boats
- Chamberlain Meets the 'Peace Offensive'
- Marshalling the Empire's Air Strength
- How They Saw Each Other - 'Only Yesterday'!
- Make-Believe - But Very Like the Real Thing
- When Hitler Hoisted the Pirate's Flag
- I Was There! - We Were Rescued from the 'Royal Oak'
- I Was There! - What We Saw of the First Air Raid on Britain
- I Was There! - I Followed Warsaw Raiders with My Camera
- I Was There! - We Saw the U-Boat Captain a Prisoner
- I Was There! - How We Dodged the British Navy
- Our Diary of the War
- It Is Said That...
- Odd Facts About the War
Volume 1 - No. 9 - November 11, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- In Fifty Days They Didn't Drop a Bomb!
- Luxemburg Fears Again for Her Neutrality
- None But The Best for Britain's Army
- Salute to Turkey, Our New Ally
- Finland Resolved to Defend Her Heritage
- Scandinavia's Rulers Take Counsel Together
- Convoys are Safe with the Royal Navy
- Nazi Bombers Brought Down by British Guns
- Words That History Will Remember
- Our War Gazetteer
- Nazi Poison Propaganda: The Great Gas Lie!
- 'There will always be Misery', says Hitler
- Germany Must Feel the Pinch of the Blockade
- Mr. Hore-Belisha Talks About the War
- The Man Who Got the Army Ready
- How to tell Officers of Navy, Army and Air Force
- I Was There! - How Our Convoy Beat the Nazi 'Planes
- I Was There! - Two Days at Sea in a Rubber Boat
- I Was There! - The Terror of a Blazing Oil Tanker
- I Was There! - I Chased a British 'Plane Over My Home
- I Was There! - We Strayed Into a North Sea Battle
- Our Diary of the War
- The Voice of the Empire
- It Is Said That...
- Odd Facts About the War
Volume 1 - No. 10 - November 18, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- British Cavalry in France - 25 Years Ago and Today
- Allies & Neutrals Await the Nazis
- R.A.F. Rules the German Sky
- How to Recognize German Raiders
- It's Not so Easy to Bomb Britain!
- Opening the Doors to America's Limitless Arsenal
- The Famous Dover Patrol Carries On
- Hitler Doomed to Failure Where Napoleon Failed
- The Russian Riddle is Still an Enigma
- Words That History Will Remember
- How to Tell Non-commissioned Ranks of the Forces
- Dramatic Story of Strasbourg's Great Exodus
- Odd Facts About the War
- Behind the Scenes in Nazi Prison Camps
- Britain's First Bag of Prisoners of War
- I Was There! - We Saw the First Air-Raid at Rosyth
- I Was There! - They Were Shot Down in the Lammersmoors
- I Was There! - We Watched a Duel in British Skies
- I Was There! - Stars and Stripes Went to the Rescue
- I Was There! - Saved One Crew While Seeking Another
- Our Diary of the War
- London
- It Is Said That...
- Wartime Abbreviations
Volume 1 - No. 11 - November 25, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Entente Cordiale in the Maginot Line
- Here in Their Front Line are the 'Poilus'
- While Here Are Nazis in Their 'Westwall'
- Finland Stands Out Against the Soviet
- The Empire Gets into Its Stride
- At the Heart of Britain's Air Defence
- The War's First Air Heroes Decorated by the King
- Threatened With War They Appealed for Peace
- Words That History Will Remember
- Our War Gazetteer
- Despite the War Paris is Not So Gloomy
- They Have Come Back to Blighty Already
- Great Guns that Make Our Coasts Secure
- In Wartime 'Q' is Big Business
- 'In the End We Shall Break Their Hearts'
- These Are the Tales the Nazis Spread About Us
- I Was There! - Our Ships Fought Back at the U-Boats
- I Was There! - I Commanded the Captured 'City of Flint'
- I Was There! - I Saw Hitler's Rout at Munich
- The Whole World Watched the Odyssey of this Ship
- I Was There! - We Found a German 'Plane on the Hill
- Who Was the Guy Fawkes in the Munich Cellar?
- Our Diary of the War
- The Shroud of Gold
- It Is Said That...
- Odd Facts About the War
Volume 1 - No. 12 - December 2, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- 'Planes in Action Above the Halted War
- Empire Pilot's Unique Feat in the Aerial War
- Dutchmen Refuse to be Rattled
- France Has a 'Silent' Navy Too
- French Flyers in Spectacular Air Battle
- Solitary Watchers of the Skies
- British Science Is Helping to Win the War
- 'Battle Practice' Oils the A.R.P. Machine
- 'Royal Ordnance' Won't Let the Soldiers Down
- Words That History Will Remember
- The Navy, Too, Fights in the Air
- Once More Convoy Safe Home in Port
- 'The German Menace Will Be Broken'
- Odd Facts About the War
- Yet Another Sea Crime in the Nazi Score
- I Was There! - The Fuehrer Had Just Left Us When...
- I Was There! - We Saw the Jewish Pogrom in Germany
- I Was There! - We Tried to Save Our Mined Destroyer
- I Was There! - We Spent Five Days in the 'Deutschland'
- I Was There! - Our Ship was Sunk by a Pocket Battleship
- First Bombs Dropped on Britain in This War
- Our Diary of the War
- To The Dead
- It Is Said That...
- Easy French Phrases For British Soldiers - 1.
Volume 1 - No. 13 - December 9, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Once More the Great Adventure is Delayed
- Young France Prepares for Air Battle
- Poland Tastes the Bitterness of Defeat
- Praque under the Bully's Bludgeon
- Round the Clock in a Prison Camp
- Their Majesties' Lead in Our War Effort
- The King and Queen Inspect the Home Front
- New Nazi Frightfulness Off Britain's Coasts
- The Menace of the Hidden Mine
- Words That History Will Remember
- Europe's Mastery is Germany's Dominant Aim
- Britain's War Aims Stated by the Premier
- Whe Germans Don't See the War as We Do
- 'The Big Lie'
- I Was There! - We Were On the Mined 'Simon Bolivar'
- I Was There! - Sunk - But We Didn't Get Our Feet Wet
- Badges of Proficiency and Trades in the Forces
- Our Diary of the War
- The Secret Weapon
- It Is Said That...
- Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 2.
Volume 1 - No. 14 - December 16, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Raid and Reconnaissance in a Wintry Scene
- Above Ground and Below in Germany's 'Westwall'
- Swastika Over Britain: A Tale of Failure
- These Are the Fighters That Routed the Raiders
- Warsaw is Now a 'City of Dreadful Night'
- Poland Still Lives and Fights in France
- 'Everywhere Activity, Everywhere Mud'
- Stalin Makes Foul War on Gallant Finland
- Finland Defies the Russian Bully
- Words That History Will Remember
- Things You May Not Know
- Britain Hits Back at the Mine-Laying 'Planes
- 'To Defend Freedom & To Establish Peace'
- 'Rawalpindi' Went Down With Colours Flying
- They Watch and Wait for Endless Hours
- 'Mail Up!' is the Call Soldiers Like Most to Hear
- I Was There! - We Scanned the Sea for Mines and U-Boats
- I Was There! - Our Ship Could Not Sail Home
- I Was There! - We Weathered A Gale in Open Boats
- I Was There! - 'U-Boat Men Not All Heartless Murderers'
- Our Diary of the War
- Shadows on the Lake
- Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 3.
Volume 1 - No. 15 - December 18, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Over the Top and Down Below with the Nazis
- Three Months of War and Now Comes Winter
- Finland Fights On in Snow and Ice
- Germany the Real Betrayer of Finland
- Red Tsar of the Kremlin
- No Indiscriminate Air-Raids On Civilians - Yet
- Stocking the Nation's Wartime Larder
- Finland's Capital City Receives a Lesson in Soviet 'Frightfulness'
- Words That History Will Remember
- Our War Gazetteer
- Small Arms Great in Quality and Performance
- How the British Soldier of 1939 Goes to War
- The Winged Lion Soars Over Heligoland
- 'Carry On and Dread Nought'
- Britain's Answer to Germany's Mine Campaign
- Stockholm Now Lies Under the Shadow of War
- Odd Facts About the War
- I Was There! - We Manned the Guns of the 'Rawalpindi'
- I Was There! - A Polish Destroyer Rescued Us
- I Was There! - We Drifted for a Week Without a Compass
- I Was There! - An Aeroplane Raced to Our Help
- Skill and Qualification Badges: Navy and Army
- Our Diary of the War
- Afterwards
- It Is Said That...
- Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 4.
Volume 1 - No. 16 - December 23, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Viscount Gort is At Home to His Majesty
- The King Goes Up The Line
- Finland's Heroic Resistance Surprises the World
- Scandinavia is Shaken by War's Thunder
- This Nazi 'Plane Will Drop No More Mines
- Unravelling the Tangle of the Balkan Pattern
- There's a Place in the Line for the Air Cadets
- Words That History Will Remember
- The Christmas Spirit: in '39 as in '14
- The Wartime Theatre Defies the Black-out
- Over Thirty-five but Not Too Old to Serve!
- We Have the Men - We Have the 'Planes
- 'We are Masters: As Masters We Behave'
- 'Graf Spee' is Brought to Bay
- I Was There! - I Saw Horrible Sights in Helsinki
- I Was There! - A Nazi Tank Slew My Wife in Poland
- I Was There! - We Escaped Torpedo, Fire and Shipwreck
- I Was There! - The Maire Who Welcomed the King
- Now It Can Be Told: Epic Story of the 'Orzel'
- Our Diary of the War
- Par Nobile Fratrum
- Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 5.
Volume 1 - No. 17 - December 29, 1939
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Britain's Army Is in the Front Line Again
- Finland Was Not Stalin's Birthday Present
- No 'Picnic' in Finland for the Red Army
- British Submarines' Best Week - So Far
- They Singed the Fuehrer's Moustache!
- 'The Glorious Battle of the River Plate'
- 'Incredible Audacity' Wins the Day for Britain
- Some Secrets of the Convoys Revealed
- The Commonsense View of Gas Attacks
- Poland is the Nazis' Jig-Saw
- Words That History Will Remember
- I Was There! - We Flew from Germany on Clipped Wings
- I Was There! - I Saw The 'Graf Spee' Attacked
- I Was There! - We Were Prisoners On the 'Graf Spee'
- I Was There! - I Scuttled My Ship to Avoid Capture
- Our Diary of the War
- Easy French Phrases for British Soldiers - 6
Volume 1 - No. 18 - January 5, 1940
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- 'Brains Trust' of the R.A.F. in France
- Britain Greets the New Year with a Cheer
- 'All Members of the Great Family of Nations'
- Finland's Vantage in Arctic War
- Who is Fighting Whom?
- Greatest Air Battle in History
- 'Non Belligerency' Is Italy's Name For It
- The King Honours the Brave and the Fair
- They Were Targets of the Nazi Air Murderers
- Words That History Will Remember
- 'Tin Hats' for the Heads of Britain's Defenders
- They 'Scuttle' - Because That's the Nazi Way
- Ursula's Exploit in 'Hitler's Cabbage Patch'
- Bombs are the Real Danger in Air Raids
- Balloons Now Float Above Britain's Seas
- 'Silver Fish' Provide Work for Clever Hands
- I Was There! - We Saw The Canadians Land in England
- I Was There! - We Had Scuttling Drill on the 'Columbus'
- I Was There! - Our Trawlers Were Bombed From the Air
- Why the Nazis Want to 'Deify' Hitler
- Last Scenes of All in the Battle of the River Plate
- Our Diary of the War
- Dachau
- It Is Said That...
- Odd Facts About the War
Volume 1 - No. 19 - January 12, 1940
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- What is the Front Line Really Like?
- Air Heroes of Two Wars Now Sleep Side by Side
- Brains Triumph over Brute Masses in Finnish War
- Finland Has Her 'Lawrence of the North'
- New Zealand Hastens to Help the Motherland
- Britain's Shipwrights Are Outpacing the Nazis
- Terrible Things are Happening Under the Nazis
- 'Graf Spee' Pays the Full Price of Defeat
- Words That History Will Remember
- Land-Ships of Which Britain May Rightly Be Proud
- Striking the Balance of the Blockade
- Lifeboatmen Rise to the New Challenge of War
- Without Oil the Wheels of War Must Stop
- Germany's 'Gates' Are Closing One by One
- The 'Bloodstained Criminals' Court Each Other
- I Was There! - We Tried to Save Half Our Ship
- I Was There! - How I Bombed A German Submarine
- I Was There! - I Drove Over a Finnish Field of Victory
- I Was There! - My Ship Broke Clean in Half
- Horse and Mule Keep Going When Motors Stop!
- Our Diary of the War
- Filius Ultor
Volume 1 - No. 20 - January 19, 1940
- Jottings from My Wartime Diary
- Europe's Map Saw Many Changes in 1939
- Germany Lost That War: How Can She Win This?
- In Finland's Snows Stalin's 'Comrades' Perish
- Stalin's Grip on the Baltic is Tightened
- Women Work and Die for Finland
- Come Aboard One of Our Aircraft Carriers!
- Where is the Ark Royal? - Why, Here She Is!
- We Shan't Win the War by 'Wishful Thinking'!
- Heroes of Wartime Black-out - Unseen & Unsung
- Words That History Will Remember
- Things You May Not Know
- Hunter and Hunted in the Submarine War
- The Modern Mine is a Double-Edged Weapon
- Australia's Airmen Now Comrades of the R.A.F.
- How Big a Threat is Germany's Air Force?
- 'What Are We To Do To Win This War?'
- I Was There! - We Saw Our 'Planes Bomb a U-Boat
- I Was There! - Our Three Bombers Fought Twelve Fighters
- I Was There! - We Were Torpedoed on Christmas Day
- I Was There! - How We Escorted a Merchant Convoy
- Our Diary of the War
- He Leaves - But His Work Lives On