Saturday, November 15, 2008

11th November, Armistice Day Passchendaele... the cartoon link

Passchendaele is only 15 km away from where I live. On Armistice Day last Tuesday I had a short visit to Tyne Cot Cemetary.


In Flanders fields...

Every time I visit this place, it gives me a captivating experience. "Where have all the flowers gone?" sang Pete Seger in 1961... "Where have all the soldiers gone", "where have all the graveyards gone..."... when will we ever learn...

After this visit I headed toward the WWI Book Fair in 'Passchendaele', only 2 km further, where hundreds of books of The Great War were exhibited.
Between all this books my eye fell on "World War I in cartoons" by cartoon historian Mark Bryant.

A cartoon book amongst all this serious war books? Yes, but this is a 'serious' cartoon book. It is a direct and truly authoritative history of the Great War, thoroughly researched and attractively presented. In a next article I will describe this magnificent book.

This is where the book fair was located...

Entry of the the fair...
this way please

Lots of military books...

At this book stall of "Tommies Guides -
The military book specialists" I discovered WW1 in Cartoons



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