Albums L'Illustration - Guerre 1914-1919 Complet 2 Tomes - 1923

The Album of the War 1914-1919 - Complete 2 Volumes - Paris, L'Illustration 1923 -
Photographic and documentary history reconstructed chronologically with the help of photos and drawings published by "L'Illustration" from 1914 to 1921 -
Augmented edition with Unpublished Documents and featuring numerous color reproductions, as well as a text constituting a true "Concise History", combining historical rigor with a direct visual testimony on life in the trenches, the battlefields and the home front -
Abundantly and richly illustrated with photographs in the main text and in the margins, with several maps, with a very large number of color plates of Kings, Generals and senior Officers glued onto heavy paper -
Many drawings and reproductions of watercolors in black and color by famous Artists also contribute to the illustration of these volumes, including J. Simont, Georges Scott, Lucien Jonas, P. Vignal, Sydney Adamson, Charles Fouqueray, Maurice Orange, Charles Duvent, L. Sabattier, François Flameng, etc. -
Brief Contents:
- Volume 1: The Last Days of Peace (June 28 – August 1914) - The Invasion (August 2 – September 6, 1914) - The Saved Country (September 6, 1914 to January 1915) - Trench Warfare (the year 1915) - The Gallipoli Expedition (November 1914 to January 1916) - In Asia and Africa (August 1914 to January 1916) - The Year of Verdun (1916) - Fire and Blood (the air war and the German submarine war, 1915 and 1916) - The German Retreat and the American Intervention (January to mid-April 1917) -
- Volume 2: The Year 1917 (March to December) - The Far Fronts (1916 and 1917) - The Last German Offensives (January to July 15, 1918) - Foch’s Rebuttal (July 18 to November 11, 1918) - The End of Three Empires (May to December 1918) - Those of the Air and Those of the Road (August 1914 to November 1918) - The Triumph Hours (November and December 1918) - Barbarism (from the invasion to the Armistice) - The New Europe (April 1917 to December 1918) - “Kultur” (Traits of the German mentality during the course of the war) - The Peace Victorious (January 1919 to August 1920) - Defeatism and the Great Trials (1917 to 1920) - To the Deaths for the Fatherland -
At the end of the work: a very large color map “The Stages of Victory” (reduction of the General Staff map placed in the Deputy Premier Marshal Foch’s Cabinet – 61 x 57 cm) and a chronological table summarizing the Five Years of War prepared by Commander Louis Rivière - From the Year 1914 to Victory and the Signing of the Treaty of Versailles -
Full-leather burgundy binding by the publisher, upper cover titled in gold within an oval laurel-leaf frame, spine titled, 1303 pages, large folio format: 41 x 31 cm - Table of contents: see photos - Condition: Used: Upper covers and spine rubbed, corners slightly worn, edges of covers rubbed -
The interiors are clean and the bindings are firmly attached -
Please see all the photos which are more explicit than my comments (Note: the photos are inverted! The photos from the first volume start from the photograph numbered 9458 and all those preceding come from the second volume) -