The War Illustrated was a British war magazine published in
London by
William Berry (later
Viscount Camrose and owner of The Daily Telegraph). It was first released on 22 August 1914, eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, and regular issues continued throughout the
First World War. The magazine was discontinued after the 8 February 1919 issue, but returned 16 September 1939 following the start of the
Second World War. 255 issues were published throughout the Second World War before the magazine permanently ceased production on 11 April 1947.[1]
Background
The magazine offers a pictorial record of both World War I and World War II. It includes numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, and the work of war artists, weekly reporting, and editorials on the conduct, events, and consequences of global conflict.
Subtitled "A Pictorial Record of the Conflict of the Nations", The War Illustrated was initially sensationalistic and patriotic. Although it contained articles, the main focus was on photographs and illustrations, most notably those of
Stanley Wood dramatising (or in some cases fabricating) events involving German troops. The magazine became more diligent in properly verifying its reports from 1916 onwards.[2]
Both versions of The War Illustrated were edited by
John Hammerton, who also contributed articles throughout the magazine's run. The magazine contained personal accounts of the war by
war correspondents such as
Hamilton Fyfe and
Luigi Barzini, Sr., descriptions and illustrations of
Victoria Cross actions (for example those of
John Lynn and
John George Smyth) and articles by authors such as
H. G. Wells ("Why Britain Went To War",[3] "Will The War Change England?"[4][5]) and
Winston Churchill ("The Right View of Verdun"). It was extremely popular: at its peak at the end of World War I, The War Illustrated had a circulation of 750,000.[5]
Wells believes that "England has come back to reality at last," and that the "Englishman of the future will be a keener, abler, better educated, and more reasonable type than the Englishman of the immediate past." In:
The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil.
Volumes 1-10 at the
Internet Archive (London: The
Amalgamated Press, 1915–1919)
The War Illustrated was a British war magazine published in
London by
William Berry (later
Viscount Camrose and owner of The Daily Telegraph). It was first released on 22 August 1914, eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, and regular issues continued throughout the
First World War. The magazine was discontinued after the 8 February 1919 issue, but returned 16 September 1939 following the start of the
Second World War. 255 issues were published throughout the Second World War before the magazine permanently ceased production on 11 April 1947.[1]
Background
The magazine offers a pictorial record of both World War I and World War II. It includes numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, and the work of war artists, weekly reporting, and editorials on the conduct, events, and consequences of global conflict.
Subtitled "A Pictorial Record of the Conflict of the Nations", The War Illustrated was initially sensationalistic and patriotic. Although it contained articles, the main focus was on photographs and illustrations, most notably those of
Stanley Wood dramatising (or in some cases fabricating) events involving German troops. The magazine became more diligent in properly verifying its reports from 1916 onwards.[2]
Both versions of The War Illustrated were edited by
John Hammerton, who also contributed articles throughout the magazine's run. The magazine contained personal accounts of the war by
war correspondents such as
Hamilton Fyfe and
Luigi Barzini, Sr., descriptions and illustrations of
Victoria Cross actions (for example those of
John Lynn and
John George Smyth) and articles by authors such as
H. G. Wells ("Why Britain Went To War",[3] "Will The War Change England?"[4][5]) and
Winston Churchill ("The Right View of Verdun"). It was extremely popular: at its peak at the end of World War I, The War Illustrated had a circulation of 750,000.[5]
Wells believes that "England has come back to reality at last," and that the "Englishman of the future will be a keener, abler, better educated, and more reasonable type than the Englishman of the immediate past." In:
The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil.
Volumes 1-10 at the
Internet Archive (London: The
Amalgamated Press, 1915–1919)