The Illustrated War News 71-80
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 71, October 17, 1917 - part 80, December 19, 1917.
At the height of the First World War, when the public hungered for truth from the front lines, The Illustrated War News delivered the conflict directly into the hands of the British public — week by week, image by image, in breathtaking detail. This remarkable collection of wartime periodicals, published by the Illustrated London News, chronicles the unfolding catastrophe of WWI through a powerful combination of photographic reportage, maps, and written dispatches, capturing everything from naval engagements and cavalry movements to life in the trenches and the human cost of industrial warfare. As a primary historical document, The Illustrated War News stands as an unparalleled record of how the Great War was witnessed, reported, and consumed on the home front. Each issue presents the war not as distant abstraction but as vivid, immediate reality — a quality that gives the collection enormous value for historians, collectors, and anyone seeking to understand how media shaped public perception of conflict. Holding these pages is to hold history itself; the question is not what they recorded, but what they reveal about a world on the brink of irrevocable change.
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Published: 1917, Illustrated London News
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 71, October 17, 1917 - part 80, December 19, 1917.
At the height of the First World War, when the public hungered for truth from the front lines, The Illustrated War News delivered the conflict directly into the hands of the British public — week by week, image by image, in breathtaking detail. This remarkable collection of wartime periodicals, published by the Illustrated London News, chronicles the unfolding catastrophe of WWI through a powerful combination of photographic reportage, maps, and written dispatches, capturing everything from naval engagements and cavalry movements to life in the trenches and the human cost of industrial warfare. As a primary historical document, The Illustrated War News stands as an unparalleled record of how the Great War was witnessed, reported, and consumed on the home front. Each issue presents the war not as distant abstraction but as vivid, immediate reality — a quality that gives the collection enormous value for historians, collectors, and anyone seeking to understand how media shaped public perception of conflict. Holding these pages is to hold history itself; the question is not what they recorded, but what they reveal about a world on the brink of irrevocable change.