First impression. "This is no formal History of the War in the strict or scientific sense of the phrase; no detailed record of naval and military operations... It is Mr. Punch's History of the Great War, a mirror of varying moods, month by month, but reflecting in the main how England remained steadfastly true to her best traditions; how all sorts and conditions of men and women comported themselves throughout the greatest ordeal that had ever befallen their race." (Prologue). - Die Allegorie des Frontispizes schuf Bernard Partridge. Die britische Satirezeitschrift "Punch" wurde 1841 gegründert und bestand, mit einer mehrjährigen Unterbrechung, bis 2002. - Mäßig bestoßen, Eignervermerk auf Vorsatz, dat. July 19, 1919. - Gut und sauber