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Volume 3 - No. 57 - October 4, 1940

When the Story is Told...

Oct1940

When the Story is Told...

(Written in a Fire Station Watchroom during a raid) When in the after years the tale is told Of these strange days while Britain stands at bay, Holding the pass – as, at Thermopylae, Leonidas –

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings From the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • Hats Off to the Men Who 'Kill' the Bombs!
  • De Gaulle: Standard-Bearer of 'Free Frenchmen'
  • Dakar's Guns Make Answer to De Gaulle
  • When the R.H.A. Stood at Bay at Hondeghem
  • London Still the Main Target of Nazi Bombs
  • Shadow of the Big Bomber Over Humble Homes
  • A Visit to Czech Airmen in Britain
  • Czechs Help to Down the Nazis Over London
  • Graziani Takes the Road Into Egypt
  • Our Merchant Navy is Stronger Than Ever
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • I Was There! - We Were Roof-Watching in Oxford Street
  • I Was There! - I Saw the Naval Attack on Rhodes
  • I Was There! - We Were Survivors from the Children's Ship
  • I Was There! - Night of Horror When 83 Children Died in Torpedoed Liner
  • They Sought Sanctuary in the Tube
  • Our Diary of the War
  • When the Story is Told...
  • Items of War Interest from Far and Near