Life Magazine (The Second World War: Containing an enormous number of issues from 1939-1948) (20 bound volumes)

Robert Capa; Daniel Longwell; John Shaw Billings; Henry Luce

Time, Life, 1939

20 volume set.  Original wraps bound in.  Rebound in library cloth. Hardcovers. Solid bindings and covers. Includes weekly photographs of the Second World War.  Includes related ephemera (such as an early newspaper article about how Hitler is a madman.)  Minor dampstaining along bottom edge of many of the volumes.  (V.16 has the worst.) Contents:  1. 1939, Sept, 4 - Dec. 18; 2. 1941, July-Sept. (v.11); 3. 1941, Oct.-Dec. (v.11); 4. 1942, July-Sept. (v.13); 5. 1942, Oct.-Dec. (v.13); 6. 1943, Jan-mar (v.14); 7. 1943, Apr-June (v.14); 8. 1943, July-Sept (v.15); 9. 1943, Oct-Dec (v.15); 10. 1944, Jan-Mar (v.16); 11. 1944, Apr-June (v.16); 12. 1944, July-Sept (v.17); 13. 1944, Oct-Dec (v.17); 14. 1945, Jan, 1-Apr, v.30; 15. 1945, April-June (v.18); 16. 1945, July-Sept (v.19); 17. 1945, Oct-Dec (v.19); 18. 1946, July-Sept (v.21); 19. 1946, Oct-Dec (v.21); 20. 1948, Mar-Apr (v.24). 

Exceptional articles throughout the issues provide fascinating news of the day, vividly illustrated with photographs and illustrations.  From 1939: The conquest of Warsaw by Germany; The theater of European war (with full-size, double-paged map); An article about the German army overrunning Poland; The beginning of the Second World War; The living Buddha : a 4 year old peasant named Tanchu becomes reincarnation of Dali Lama; Paintings by Adolf Hitler.  Form 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union; The Eastern Front; Nazi Germany after 2 years of war; Tank battles in Russia; Nazi spies; Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, first pictures 1941; War declared!; The day of wrath by Henry R Luce; Dumbo the Disney movie; Japanese Attack on the Philippines.  From 1942: Rommel's drive in Egypt; The battle of Midway; Convoy battles; Marines attack the Solomon Islands; First American offensive in the Second World War; The French Underground; Disney goes to war; Stalingrad; the Marines on Guadalcanal; General Ike Eisenhower (Close Up); Amphibious war; The American invasion of North Africa; Images of the devastation of Pearl Harbor.  From 1943: Battle of Buna; Race war in Detroit; General MacArthur (Close Up); Invasion of Sicily; Precision bombing with the US Air Force; Captured Naples; The fight for Tarawa; Experience by battle by John Hersey.  From 1944: Gen. Omar Bradley (Close Up); The invasion of Normandy; The taking of Rome; German Atrocities and mass murder in Rome; Will post war China be democratic? by Y.C. James Yen; B-29 super fortresses bomb Japan; Admiral Nimitz (Close Up); The War and Civil Liberties editorial; Japanese civilians commit mass suicides on Saipan; The liberation of Paris; Battle of Germany; Liberation of the Philippines; Battle for Brest; Battles of Leyte and Luzon, destruction of the Japanese fleet; Reelection of FDR; V 2 flying bombs; Bombing of London.  From 1945: Conference at Yalta; A message from President Truman; Iwo Jima; the last days of the Ardennes salient; Conquest of Cologne; Battle of Rhine; Conquest of Manila; Hitler's late resort; Victory in Europe; Hitler by William Schlamm; The 5th army in Italy; United Nations established; Hiroshima; The atomic bomb drop by the Enola Gay; VJ day (victory over Japan); Nuclear fusion, the Manhattan project; The atomic scientists speak up; Nuclear physicist say there is no secrecies of the atomic bomb and no defense against it. (This is a very heavy set, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.)