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Cricket in World War I was severely curtailed in all nations where first-class cricket was then played except India. In England, South Africa and the West Indies, first-class cricket was entirely abandoned for the whole of the war, whilst in Australia and New Zealand regular competitions were played for the 1914–15 season but first-class matches were afterwards abandoned.
Taylor, James (2013), Your Country Needs You: the Secret History of the Propaganda Poster, Glasgow: Saraband, ISBN 9781887354974; Tynan, Jane (2013). British Army Uniform and the First World War: Men in Khaki. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-31831-2. Welch, David; Fox, Jo, eds. (2012). Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age.
Russian World War 1 propaganda posters generally showed the enemies as demonic, one example showing Kaiser Wilhelm as a devil figure. [13] They would all depict the war as ‘patriotic’, with one poster saying that the war was Russia’s second ‘patriotic war’, the first being against Napoleon.
How Britain Prepared (1915 British film poster).. In the First World War, British propaganda took various forms, including pictures, literature and film. Britain also placed significant emphasis on atrocity propaganda as a way of mobilising public opinion against Imperial Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War. [1]
Pork Chop Hill (1959) was the most notable 1950s American anti-war propaganda piece about the Korean war. Milestone was known for his previous anti-war films, including 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front and Shangganling (The Battle of Sangkumryung Ridge or Triangle Hill; 1956), which was the most influential film on the Chinese in that era.
English cricket was completely disrupted by World War I and there were no first-class matches after August 1914 until May 1919. A similar situation arose in World War II with a shutdown of first-class cricket from September 1939 until the summer of 1945 when eleven matches were specially arranged; cricket returned to normal in 1946 with a full domestic programme and a Test series against India.
Born in Benediktbeuern, Bavaria, [11] he trained as a lithographer and became a student of Maximilian Dasio at the Munich School of Applied Arts.He joined Hollerbaum und Schmidt around 1908, becoming part of the "Berlin School", [12] where he created what is considered one of the most enduring examples of Sachplakat, an advertisement for the nascent racing division of the Opel car manufacturer.
"Women of Britain Say 'Go! '" was produced in March 1915.It was printed by Hill, Siffken and Co Ltd, London, and published by the Parliamentary Recruitment Committee, [7] who produced the majority of the early recruitment posters in World War I. [8] It was one of a collection of posters commissioned by the Committee which were targeted towards women. [9]