The Illustrated War News 51-60
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 51, May 30, 1917 - part 60, August 1, 1917
Few historical artefacts capture the raw, unfolding drama of the First World War with the immediacy and authority of The Illustrated War News, a landmark periodical that brought the conflict directly into the homes of a anxious British public. Published weekly by The Illustrated London News during the years of the Great War (1914–1918), each issue chronicles the devastating theatre of war through striking photographic reportage, detailed battlefield maps, and incisive written dispatches — making it one of the most significant primary sources of wartime visual journalism ever produced. A collection of these issues is nothing short of a window into history itself, presenting the war not through the sanitised lens of retrospect, but with the immediacy of contemporary witness. The editors and correspondents of The Illustrated War News documented every major front — from the muddy trenches of the Western Front to the sun-scorched campaigns of Gallipoli — with a journalistic rigour that both informed and shaped public opinion. Each surviving copy stands as an irreplaceable record of a world in crisis, and a set such as this raises a compelling question: what untold stories still wait within these yellowed, storied pages?
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Published: 1917, The Illustrated London News
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 51, May 30, 1917 - part 60, August 1, 1917
Few historical artefacts capture the raw, unfolding drama of the First World War with the immediacy and authority of The Illustrated War News, a landmark periodical that brought the conflict directly into the homes of a anxious British public. Published weekly by The Illustrated London News during the years of the Great War (1914–1918), each issue chronicles the devastating theatre of war through striking photographic reportage, detailed battlefield maps, and incisive written dispatches — making it one of the most significant primary sources of wartime visual journalism ever produced. A collection of these issues is nothing short of a window into history itself, presenting the war not through the sanitised lens of retrospect, but with the immediacy of contemporary witness. The editors and correspondents of The Illustrated War News documented every major front — from the muddy trenches of the Western Front to the sun-scorched campaigns of Gallipoli — with a journalistic rigour that both informed and shaped public opinion. Each surviving copy stands as an irreplaceable record of a world in crisis, and a set such as this raises a compelling question: what untold stories still wait within these yellowed, storied pages?