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The Great War Through Picture Postcards
Language: en
Pages: 796
Authors: Guus de Vries
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-30 - Publisher: Pen and Sword

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During World War I, the picture postcard was the most important means of communication for the soldiers in the field and their loved ones at home, with an estim
Till the Boys Come Home
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Tonie Holt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-30 - Publisher: Pen and Sword

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This is a new edition of this classic book which includes, in its over 700 postcards, many new, powerful propaganda images from nations on both sides of this ep
Postcards from the Trenches
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Irene Guenther
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sen
A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Frank Jacob
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-30 - Publisher: Vernon Press

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For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we lo
British Postcards of the First World War
Language: en
Pages: 105
Authors: Peter Doyle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great War. They tel