Around the War in 80 Postcards

 

Patriotic Postcards

Brothers-in-arms : French and British soldiers help out a wounded 'poor little' Belgian

Patriotic kitsch : posed postcards with a Belgian sweetheart and G.I. Jane, 1914-style.

 

Flags, soldiers and allegories galore : yet more of the 'Brave Little Belgium' myth.

But what would Belgium, in either feminine or masculine apparition, have done without big brother France to look out for her ?

 

 

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