LIFE MAGAZINE JAN-FEB 1944 BOUND VOLUME 9 FULL WWII ISSUES PATTON STALIN HITLER

Description: LIFE MAGAZINE JAN-FEB 1944 BOUND VOLUME 9 FULL WWII ISSUES PATTON, STALIN, HITLER, WINTER SOLDIER, DALI, MORAN PIN UPS, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, BATTLE OF THE BULGE, COLLEGE BASKETBALL, SUPREME COURT, ESTHER WILLIAMS, SILLY PUTTY, JANE RUSSELL, BILL MAULDIN, MACARTHUR RETURNS, DALAI LAMA, MARGARET O'BRIEN, ELIZABETH TAYLOR From the estate of a WWII book and magazine collector comes this top WWII era bound volume of the iconic LIFE MAGAZINE. Issues all feature extensive coverage of major WWII major battles along with life on the home front, historic events, people, stars of movies, Broadway and Radio. Bound in leather and linen boards, front cover board is in excellent shape with minor edge wear, Spine has minor wear at the very top and bottom edges. Back Cover boards are in excellent condition. All 9 issues are fully complete with no missing pages. All front and back covers are fully intact. All pages are in top shape, generally free of any tears, creases, stains or blemishes and tight to spine. Here is the rundown of each great issues JAN 1, 1945: BIG GUN COVER (SOLDIER READYING 8 INCH GUN) 76 pages complete WWII STORIES; Nazis Attack As Production Lags (as war grinds on, ammunition, equipment in short supply), Jinx Falkenburg entertains the troops, The Battle of Hurtgen Forest, Stalin at 65 (long feature on Russian leader), Germans in retreat SAVLADOR DALI SEVEN LIVELY ARTS ILLUSTRATIONS Welker Cochran wins Billiards Championship JEROME KERN celebrates 40 years of song writing NATIONAL VELVET movie of the week with Elizabeth Taylor Full page of Earl Moran color pin up girls All About Athens (great photos) Ads for Ford, Dr. West, Campbell's Soup, Swan Soap, Modess, Frenchman's Creek & Belle of the Yukon (Color movie poster full page ads) JANUARY 8, 1945 CROCHET TOGS (Fashion model cover-Leslie Venable) with lots of great photos of models in crochet fashions. 100 pages complete WWII STORIES: Charles D. Pearson cartoons, Americans Battle the German Big Push (long feature on December battles), Home Front in 1945, First Air Views of Tokyo, Battle of Si Lo with paintings by Pleissner, The Future of Liberated France Is Carol Ann the the out of wedlock daughter of Charlie Chaplin (lots of photos of baby girl) FRANK FAY in HARVEY (good bio of Fay) HOW MOVIES ARE MADE (elaborate photo feature on the step by step process of making of THE DOUGH GIRLS featuring Joe DeRita of the Three Stooges), Life goes to A Cotillion for 99 new debs Ads for GE Radio with Jeanette MacDonald, Winged Victory (full page movie ad), Libby's, Chesterfields (new year's theme), Carnation Milk, Snider's Chile Sauce Old Gold, Nash ad with Rico Tomaso art , Green Giant, Dole, Martin Aircraft, Schlitz, Coke JAN 15,1945 - General PATTON cover and long feature. 92 pages WWII Stories – BATTLE OF THE BULGE, (great shots of tank battles), Churchill in Greece, Soviet Businessman helps the war effort by John Hersey, The Incredible Patrol (6 Americans take 32 Nazi Prisoners) CHRISTMAS in St. Peter's Square with Pius XII ON THE TOWN premieres on Broadway Full page Painting of Ingrid Bergman by Alexander Brook Movie of the Week – Keys to the Kingdom with Gregory Peck BOSTON – an old city looks ahead (great photos of Boston landmarks, people, leaders, events) Life Visits Copacabana Beach Ads for Chrysler, Bexel with Dorothy Lamour, Campbells, Statler Hotels, Tomorrow the World (full page movie ad), Gaines, Kodak film, Chevrolet, Great double page ad for NBC RADIO with photos of all radio stars (Abbott & Costello, Jack Benny,, Amos n Andy, Eddie Cantor, Fibber McGee, Henny Youngman and others) JAN 22 1945 BASKEBALL cover (St. John's University team) and great photo feature 100 pages complete. WWII STORIES – The Battle Begins for Luzon, Battle of the Bulge Air Battle, Red Cross sends packages to POWs, Time & Life Correspondent Bill Chickering dies in action, Vught Nazi Concentration Camp in Netherlands liberated, Admiral Jocko Clark battles Japanese in the Pacific SUN FASHIONS – great bathing beauties photo feature Focus on the FDR's Supreme Court of Nine Young Men. Photo feature on Warner Brothers short, JAMMIN' THE BLUES with many photos of jazz greats Photo feature of ESTHER WILLIAMS in bed! Ads for PHILCO, Borden's, Goodyear, 7-Up, Western Electric, National Velvet (full page ad), Paul Webb drawings for Crown Zipper, Firestone, DeSoto, Ovaltine, Tonight and Every Night (full page color movie ad with Rita Hayworth) JAN 29 1945 – George Lott, - Odyssey of a Wounded Soldier cover and feature (first four pages have small tear at bottom margin) 96 pages WWII STORIES – The casualties of war (extensive feature on how an injured solder gets back home and the long road to recovery), Russia Learns a New History (Stalin re-writes Soviet history for the masses) with extensive painted illustrations; Anatomy of an Anti Blackout Suit for aviators, BATTLE OF THE WEST goes on in the snow Photo feature on Well Bred Cats Sailor Hats fashion feature with leading models of the day, Origin of SILLY PUTTY (then called Bouncing Putty) London Theater Pantomimes Execution of 19 year old joy killers Joseph Leemon and Maruice Shimniok Profile of UK's orchestra Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham JANE RUSSELL poses in bathing suit on a chilly Beach in January. Ads for Chrysler, Texaco, General Electric, Borden's with Ed Wynn illustration, Birds Eye, Can't Help Singing with Deanna Durbin full page movie ad, To Have and Have Not with Bogart and Bacall full page movie ad, Betty Hutton for Bexel, FEB 5, 1945 – FLORIDA BATHING BEAUTY COVER (Amelia Crossland) and photo feature.116 pages complete WWII STORIES – Last Days of the Ardennes Salient (great battles in the snow) Russian March to Berlin grinds on, War zone Wedding (16 marriage photos), The Forgotten Fronts (Pacific battlefields) , Profile of War Cartoonist BILL MAULDIN, Russian Soldiers by life artist Fredenthal Long all full page photo feature on American Legends (Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, Joe Hill, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Blackbeard) LIFE GOES TO THE INAUGURATION Full page painting of MERLE OBERON by George Sand Ads for Capehart/Farnsworth, Campbells, Westinghouse, Pabst, Squibb, Whitman's (Valentine's Day theme), Stetson, DuBarry, CHESTERFIELD FEB 12 1945 – SOVIET SOLDIER cover 120 pages complete WWII STORIES – Hollywood USO murals, The Russians Drive on Hitler's Berlin, Photo feature on Hitler's rise and fall. Opening of the Stilwell Road, Trench Foot, Profile of Russian General Zhukov Double page all star photo for FDR's birthday with Myrna Loy, Veronica Lake, Gene Kelly, Gale Storm, Joe E. Brown, many others MIAMI WORRIES ABOUT ANOTHER BOOM (with great photos of bathing beauties and the city) The Tempest on Broadway Winter in Maine photo feature Movie of the week – Tonight and Every Night with Rita Hayworth Ads for Cadillac, General Electric Radio with CARMEN MIRANDA, Bird's eye, Studebaker, National Velvet LIL Abner for Cream of Wheat, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (full page movie ad) Meat ad with great painting of Uncle Sam, Shirley Temple for Royal Crown Cola, Motorola Radio with Errol Flynn, Coke ad back cover FEB 19, 1945 – SKI CLOTHES fashion cover and feature. 116 pages WWII STORIES – U..S. Wins Heart of the Philippines with famous MacArthur Returns Photos, On To Tokyo photo feature of pre war Japan JAMES THURBER feature and original drawings DALAI LAMA feature with great photos Hobson Pittman artist profile PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE (first anti depressants) long feature on how they work Ads for Bordens, Otto Soglow cartoon for Crown Zippers, Texaco, RCA Victor, Chevrolet, Wyeth, 7-UP, MURDER MY SWEET (great full page BW movie poster like ad with classic film noir) Columbia Records with Paul Robeson, FEB 26, 1945 – WINTER SOLDIER COVER – 104 pages WWII STORIES – Fascist leader Dino Grandi tells of the fall of Mussolini, Crimea Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill), Navy Raids Tokyo, Soldiers fight harsh winter, Bataan survivors rescued, War in Greek Aegean Sea as captured by Life Artist Perlin, Helicopters in the war, Fashion Critics award show with great photos, Nightgown fashions Feature on Child Actresses Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor , Peggy Anne Garner with great photos Scottie wins Westminster Dog Show Movie of the week – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Classic photo of Lauren Bacall on piano as Truman Plays Ads for DeSoto, Victor with Toscanini and Horowitz, Hollywood Canteen (full page movie ad), Schlitz, Meador's Peanut Brittle, Little Lulu for Kleenex 9 Great WWII issues of Life Magazine

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