The Illustrated War News 1-10
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: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; Part 1, June 14, 1916 - Part 10, August 16, 1916; part 1 and 2 in fair/poor condition - rusty staples, detached covers with tears along the edges.
Few historical artefacts capture the immediacy of global conflict quite like The Illustrated War News, a remarkable series of wartime periodicals published during the First World War. Produced by the prestigious Illustrated London News group beginning in 1916, each part presents a vivid, photographic chronicle of the Great War as it unfolded in real time — from the muddy trenches of the Western Front to the vast campaigns of distant theatres, delivering the reality of modern warfare directly into the hands of the British public. As a primary historical document, this collection holds extraordinary significance for scholars, collectors, and history enthusiasts alike. The publication's unflinching photographic reportage and detailed dispatches illustrate the full sweep of WWI military operations, capturing soldiers, artillery, and the machinery of industrialised warfare with a journalistic authority rarely matched by its contemporaries. Each issue is a time capsule — a window into how an empire at war saw itself — leaving the reader to wonder what it truly felt like to turn these very pages as the guns still roared.
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Published: 1916, The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; Part 1, June 14, 1916 - Part 10, August 16, 1916; part 1 and 2 in fair/poor condition - rusty staples, detached covers with tears along the edges.
Few historical artefacts capture the immediacy of global conflict quite like The Illustrated War News, a remarkable series of wartime periodicals published during the First World War. Produced by the prestigious Illustrated London News group beginning in 1916, each part presents a vivid, photographic chronicle of the Great War as it unfolded in real time — from the muddy trenches of the Western Front to the vast campaigns of distant theatres, delivering the reality of modern warfare directly into the hands of the British public. As a primary historical document, this collection holds extraordinary significance for scholars, collectors, and history enthusiasts alike. The publication's unflinching photographic reportage and detailed dispatches illustrate the full sweep of WWI military operations, capturing soldiers, artillery, and the machinery of industrialised warfare with a journalistic authority rarely matched by its contemporaries. Each issue is a time capsule — a window into how an empire at war saw itself — leaving the reader to wonder what it truly felt like to turn these very pages as the guns still roared.