NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, June 24, 1940

* France-Italy armistice
* Dictator Benito Mussolini 
* Battle of France conclusion

The front page has a nice banner headline: "FRENCH ACCEPT DUCE'S TERMS, FIGHTING TO CEASE TONIGHT" with subheads. (see) Nice for display.
Complete with all 28 pages, light toning, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: This June 24, 1940, issue of the New York World-Telegram serves as an extraordinary historical time capsule, capturing the precise moment the geopolitical landscape of Europe fractured during World War II. The bold banner headline, "FRENCH ACCEPT DUCE'S TERMS, FIGHTING TO CEASE TONIGHT," chronicles the finality of the Battle of France as the French delegation capitulated to Benito Mussolini's demands just two days after signing a humiliating surrender to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. The significance of this publication lies in its real-time documentation of a global catastrophe: the official silencing of French guns at 12:35 AM on June 25, the immediate carving of the country into a Nazi-occupied zone and the collaborationist Vichy regime, and the sudden isolation of Great Britain as the sole remaining Western power standing against the Axis.