ILLUSTRATED WAR REPORTS: YPRES

Depicting the grim realities of the four year struggle for the Ypres salient, this powerful collection showcases work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humourists, and the result is a stunning and vivid graphic record of life and death as reported to contemporary audiences when events were still unfolding. They provided a highly accurate visual record of the fleeting moments which the bulky cameras could not reproduce and a contemporary record of hand-to-hand fighting, trench raids, aerial dogfights, sea battles, desperate last stands, night actions and cavalry charges. Images show Irish fusiliers attacking with the bayonet, they go into prayer before action and a crowded railway platform with a wounded soldier and stretcher bearers in a Bruce Bairnsfather drawing has the caption 'The unquenchable cheerfulness of the British soldier.' 128 large pages, 24 x 18.5cm, paperback. Hundreds of illus.