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Volume 10 spanning issues 37 to 40, contains an extensive account of the Japanese surprise attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, which begins by tracing the early history of the Hawaiian Islands and the events that preceded the 'Day of Infamy' that brought the United States into the war. Of the eighteen ships that were sunk or seriously damaged, many were salvaged to fight another day, whilst two still lie where they went down - memorials in perpetuity. The German take-over of the Hungarian capital of Budapest is the subject of a story of which the streets of this East European city still in places bear evidence of its subsequent bitter defence against Soviet forces. The streets of London, host capital of the European governments-in-exile and hub of Allied operations, constitute an absorbing hunting ground for an article which tracks down premises that were among the hundreds which 'housed the administrative heart of the machine that won the European war'. As a counterpart to the description of code-breaking developments in deciphering German 'Enigma' wireless traffic, there are the personal reminiscences of a young WRNS girl, one of hundreds of Wrens pitched into the secret world of 'Ultra', who tells for the first time in thirty years the human side of the story. Misconceptions surrounding a number of classic pictures used in practically every book ever published about the Battle of the Bulge are dispelled in new appraisal and other topics include: wartime television from Paris, military vehicle relics and aircraft recovery, the making of the film The Battle of the River Plate, and a detailed account of the flight that ended in the death of the Allied air force commander Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, high in the remote French Alps.
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