Ill, p.240.A magazine-style book created in 1916 and composed entirely of articles and sketches contributed by British soldiers fighting on the front lines – a light-hearted and eclectic mix of stories, poems, cartoons and, littered at regular intervals throughout, a comic series of encyclopaedic entries for military terms.world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - poetry

Ill.non-fictionHumorous cartoons illustrating the war in France 1914-1918world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - cartoons and caricatures

Ill.non-fictionHumorous cartoons illustrating the war in France 1914-1918world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - cartoons and caricatures

Ill.non-fictionHumorous cartoons illustrating the war in France 1914-1918world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - cartoons and caricatures

Ill.non-fictionHumorous cartoons illustrating the war in France 1914-1918world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - cartoons and caricatures

Ill.non-fictionHumorous cartoons illustrating the war in France 1914-1918world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - cartoons and caricatures

Ill.non-fictionHumorous cartoons illustrating the war in France 1914-1918world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - cartoons and caricatures

Ill, p.131.fictionA book of poetry and humour from the First World warworld war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 - poetry

Booklet with an olive green-grey coloured cover and two staples in the spine. Title printed across the top in blue print. Large cartoon drawing of two soldiers in a trench with bombs exploding above them surrounded by a white rectangle border. Author's name printed across the bottom.non-fictionCartoons and caricatures of the First World War. "Here is the great war reduced to grim and gruesome absurdity. It is not fun poked by a mere looker-on, it is the fun felt in the war by one who has been through it." (taken from the foreward)world war 1914-1918, world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 caricatures and cartoons

Green staple-bound paperback booklet. Title printed in dark green text across the top and author's name across the bottom. The centre of the page is a cartoon image of two soldiers looking across at another soldier sitting in a trench. The image is surrounded by a white rectangle border.non-fictionCartoons and caricatures of the First World War. "Here is the great war reduced to grim and gruesome absurdity. It is not fun poked by a mere looker-on, it is the fun felt in the war by one who has been through it." (taken from the foreward in volume one)world war 1914-1918, world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 caricatures and cartoons, wwi, ww1

Grey staple-bound paperback booklet. Title printed in red text across the top and author's name across the bottom. The centre of the page is a cartoon image of two soldiers looking across at another soldier crawling out of a tunnel in a trench. The image is surrounded by a white rectangle border.non-fictionCartoons and caricatures of the First World War. "Here is the great war reduced to grim and gruesome absurdity. It is not fun poked by a mere looker-on, it is the fun felt in the war by one who has been through it." (taken from the foreward in volume one)world war 1914-1918, world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 caricatures and cartoons, wwi, ww1

Green paperback book with three staples down the spine. Title printed in dark green across the top and author printed in the same dark green across the bottom. large illustration in the centre of a man in army uniform walking with a well dressed lady and her dog.non-fictionA collection of humorous caricatures and drawings from the First World War.world war 1914-1918 - humour, world war 1914-1918 caricatures and cartoons, ww1, wwi

Illustrated book with a brown cover and a blue spine. The title is at the top in red letters framed by white, an illustration of a nurse in a white dress outfit with two white tents by her. At the bottom are the acknowledgments for the creators.fictionThis humorous book brings to life the staff and patients working at a military hospital during the First World War. It was illustrated by Joyce Dennys who worked as a volunteer nurse at the Budleigh Salterton Auxiliary Hospital and the larger No.2 Exeter Military Hospital.children's poetry, world war 1914-1918, hospital humour

Small hardcover book with a dark red dustjacket. The spine is torn at the top and bottom and there is an old tape mark on the bottom of the spine. The front has a black silouette of a soldier playing a bugle along the right side edge, beneath him is a solid black line with the author's name printed below across the bottom of the cover. The title is printed in black ink across the top. The title and author are also printed in black text on the top part of the spine, further down it reads '3/6 net' and 'Herbert Joseph'.non-fiction"This is the Diary of a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in Salonika (present-day Thessaloniki in Greece) from June, 1917, til the end of the war, and a little beyond. It is a vividly written and entertaining piece of autobiography, enlivened by an attractive sense of humour. We feel the book will interest not only the V.A.D.'s of the Great War, but also the large public which is ever on the look-out for authentic books concerning the war period." - from inside the dust jacket. salonika, voluntary aid detachment, greece, world war 1914-1918