British Postcards of the First World War
British Postcards of the First World War

Author: Peter Doyle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-11-20

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0747811865

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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 tell us much about attitudes towards the war, and provide a great insight into men's lives, and into the thoughts and emotions of those left behind. Very different in their illustration, and in their writing, between the beginning of the war and the end, postcards provide a social history of the war in microcosm. Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.

Propaganda Postcards of World War II
Propaganda Postcards of World War II

Author: Ron Menchine

Publisher: Antique Trader Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Here's World War II as it has never been seen before. The propaganda of the war years reflects the mood of the nations involved. The stories behind propaganda postcards are fascinating bits of history often overlooked in textbooks. These are the real thing -- showing how the Axis and Allies demonized their enemies and glorified their heroes. More than 300 postcards from over 20 nations and Menchine's incisive commentary provide a provocative glimpse into the emotional climate of the peoples affected by the war, whether they were on the battlefield or on the production line.

Wwi German Aviators
Wwi German Aviators

Author: Charles Woolley

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9780764318795

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"Over 270 different cards of 132 individual aviators are included in this ground-breaking edition. Boelcke, Immelmann, the Richthofen brothers, Udet, and G?ring are just a few of the famed aces and Pour le Mé́rite flyers photographed by Postkarten-Vertrieb Willi Sanke. Each postcard is given full page coverage, accompanied by a brief history of each man, together with his victories and highest attained award"--Page 2 of cover.

Postcards from the Trenches
Postcards from the Trenches

Author: Irene Guenther

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1350015776

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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 sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4” x 6” cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert's war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the “degenerate” artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert's haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man's token of love and longing and a soldier's testimony of the Great War.

Postcards from World War II
Postcards from World War II

Author: Robynn Clairday

Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780757001024

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"Postcards From World War II" is a unique look at the history of our nation at war presented through postcard images and messages. 150 full-color postcards.

Postcards from the Trenches
Postcards from the Trenches

Author: Allyson Booth

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0195102118

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She links, for example, the modernist representation of an unstable self to soldiers' familiarity with corpses, the modernist mistrust for fact to the competing nationalist discourses of August 1914, and the modernist description of buildings as having shaken off the past to a desire to forget the war. Booth argues that the dislocations of war often figure centrally in modernist forms even when the war itself seems peripheral to modernist content.

The First World War on Cigarette and Trade Cards
The First World War on Cigarette and Trade Cards

Author: Cyril Mazansky

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2015-03-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764347597

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Although there have been, and continue to be, many books written on a wide variety of aspects of the First World War, this work not only approaches the history of the war from a unique perspective, but also comprehensively covers many of these aspects. Utilising cards from the extensive, remarkably detailed and mostly contemporaneous issues of cigarette and trade card sets related to the First World War, the author provides a richly illustrated and descriptive tapestry of this great conflict. Not only are the usual political and armed services aspects of the war covered in detail, but also the many other less covered parts receive attention. These latter include regal aspects, and other components of the military such as armamentarium, awards, uniforms and militaria. Then the important role that propaganda played is also covered. The social and literary aspects of the war form an important part of the book. All these written details, a significant amount of which is drawn from the descriptions on the cards, complement the hundreds of card illustrations found throughout the work.

Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500–1960
Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500–1960

Author: William A. Christian Jr.

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2012-02-20

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 6155053383

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This study addresses the relation of people to divine beings in contemporary and historical communities, as exemplified in three strands. One is a long tradition of visions of mysterious wayfarers in rural Spain who bring otherworldly news and help, including recent examples. Another treats the seeming vivification of religious images—statues, paintings, engravings, and photographs apparently exuding blood, sweat and tears in Spanish homes and churches in the early modern period and the revival of the phenomenon throughout Europe in the twentieth century. Of special interest is the third strand of the book: the transposition of medieval and early modern representations of the relations between humans and the divine into the modern art of photography. Christian presents a pictorial examination of the phenomenon with a large number of religious images, commercial postcards and family photographs from the first half of past century Europe.