‘The very unfamiliarity of this new type of war picture, with its new type of warrior, will suggest that the contest is no longer a matter of soldiers and sailors and airmen. In the work of these artists there is none of the rhetoric of war; no military bands, no flags, no splendid horsemen. Yet in the grim realities which they depict there is a majesty, and a new vision of glory.’
J. B. MORTON, War Pictures by British Artists, BLITZ,
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1942, PAGE 8