num_pages: 200
description: Chosen as a must-read recommendation on Sgt. Santa's Reading List in Armchair General January 2009It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words but during World War I newspaper illustrations were worth even more not only conveying the news to anxious families at home and soldiers in battle but also entertaining and lifting the spirits of a nation at war.Featuring work by some of the most well-known illustrators of the period fromW. Heath Robinson to Bruce Bairnsfather this thematic collection of 250 WorldWar I magazine illustrations is published in association with The Illustrated London News (the British Harper's).The illustrations included range from light-hearted strip cartoons and line drawings to poignant sketches and dark and hard-hitting political satire. The images not only depict events as they happened but reveal all the moods of a nation at war. Many are published here for the first time in 90 years creating a unique bittersweet portrayal of the Great War and a fascinating and very human historical and artistic reference source.
language: English
title: Brushes and Bayonets: Cartoons, sketches and paintings of World War I
publisher: Osprey Publishing