A Collection of Magazine Covers

'The War Illustrated'

The following links access a simple collection of some 60 magazine covers of the British newsmagazine 'The War Illustrated' taken haphazardly from the years 1915, 1916 and 1917. There is no particular order to the collection of images, they have simply been chosen because of availability and because of their striking dramatic appearance in general.

As has been remarked upon previously, the use of hand drawn illustrations in the newsmedia was a common practice, especially since photographs of actual battle scenes were difficult to come by and dangerous to make in the first place. There is a understandable prevalence of scenes showing British feats of arms on these covers. Many of the covers were drawn by Stanley Wood.

Binding cover

advertisements for the bound volumes of 'the War Illustrated'

see also a collection of pages from 'The War Illustrated' on the Battle of Verdun

and a collection of full page scans of Photos of the Dardanelles Campaign

and a collection of full pages of Photos of the Siege of Antwerp

To Illustrations Galleries

The War Illustrated 01

The War Illustrated 02

The War Illustrated 03

The War Illustrated 04

The War Illustrated 05

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The War Illustrated 07

The War Illustrated 08

The War Illustrated 09

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The War Illustrated 12

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The War Illustrated 14

The War Illustrated 15

The War Illustrated 16

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