NOTE TO 2014 EDITION
By the time the 100th Anniversary of the WW1 Armistice is reached in 2018, every one of the some 750 original postcards in this book will also be at least 100 years old. No longer will they be just, scraps of paper, but treasured historical documents, unwitting contemporary observers of the war in all of its aspects.
This completely revised edition contains many new images from both sides, some of them extremely rare and valuable propaganda cards
The universality of information via the internet has enabled us to expand some of the picture captions beyond what we were able to do with the first edition, but we have left the central narrative untouched.
Internet sites like e-bay and a variety of international auction houses, have brought the value and significance of the contemporary picture postcard to a wider audience including schoolchildren, and these simple pictures, sometimes with their poignant messages, are a wonderful introduction to the young of the price that was paid for the freedoms that we enjoy today.