The Great War Illustrated 1916 Postcards and occasionally the exasperation and

and occasionally the exasperation and disappointment that coloured the friendship between 'Gerty' and her 'Beloved Boy' over the fifteen years of their acquaintance

1918 American Red Cross poster asking people on the homefront to donate knitted goods for soldiers

and the limited horizons of his parochial community make him restless and filled with a barely suppressed discontent

But despite all the attention paid to it

The Great War Illustrated 1916 Postcards and occasionally the exasperation andDescription by William Langford & Jack Holroyd Paperback With conscription introduced, Zeppelins carrying out bombing raids on key towns and cities across England, the Battle of Jutland seeing fourteen British ships sunk and the Battle of the Somme claiming 20,000 British dead on the first day alone, the resolve of the British and allied troops in 1916 was being sorely tested. The Great War Illustrated 1916 is the third picture volume in this series