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The War Illustrated was a British war magazine published in London by William Berry (later Viscount Camrose and owner of The Daily Telegraph). It was first released on 22 August 1914, eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, and regular issues continued throughout the First World War .
Melton Prior (12 September 1845 – 2 November 1910), was an English artist and war correspondent [1] for The Illustrated London News from the early 1870s until 1904. Prior was one of the leading illustrators of late Victorian Britain, noted for his ability to quickly sketch scenes.
Berry made his fortune with the publication of the First World War magazine The War Illustrated, which at its peak had a circulation of 750,000. In partnership with his younger brother, Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley (the elder brother was Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland ), he purchased The Sunday Times in 1915 and was its editor-in-chief ...
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE RA (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. [1]
A group of Chelsea Pensioners grouped around a colleague reading Shurey's Illustrated. Shurey's Illustrated was published weekly from 14 October 1899 – 17 June 1903. [1]: 174 Initially it focused on the Second Anglo-Boer War and the first edition was described as a regular war number [2] The paper was printed on art paper, and the editor and proprietor Charles Shurey boasted that he had ...
In 1933, Hammerton's A Popular History of the Great War (in six volumes) was published. In his introduction to volume 1, Hammerton discusses the previous World War I series: 'Although it remains a storehouse of information for future students of the period, "The Great War", as that set of thirteen massive volumes was called, would now require to be largely re-written in light of later knowledge'.
The U.S. Marine Corps: An Illustrated History by Merrill L. Bartlett; The Village by Bing West; Uncommon Men: The Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps by Alfred M. Gray; United States Marine Corps Air Stations of World War II by M.L. Shettle; United States Marine Corps Aviation Squadron Lineage, Insignia and History Volume 1 by Michael J. Crowler
The 1999 novel The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson is a reference to The Illustrated Man by title. Elton John's hit song, "Rocket Man", was inspired by the Bradbury story. [14] The band Pearls Before Swine released a song named after and inspired by "The Rocket Man".