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Title: Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1
The First Twelve Months of War

Author: Louis Raemaekers

Editor: J. Murray Allison

Illustrator: Louis Raemaekers

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Language: English

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RAEMAEKERS'
CARTOON
HISTORY OF THE WAR

[Illustration: Louis Raemaekers]

RAEMAEKERS'
CARTOON
HISTORY OF THE WAR

COMPILED BY
J. MURRAY ALLISON
Editor of _Raemaekers' Cartoons_, _Kultur in Cartoons_,
_The Century Edition de Luxe Raemaekers' Cartoons_, _etc._

VOLUME ONE
THE FIRST TWELVE MONTHS OF WAR

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1918

Copyright, 1918, by
THE CENTURY CO.

FOREWORD

In all the welter of the tragic upheaval which is shattering
institutions once thought immutable, condemning millions to physical
death and awakening other millions to spiritual life, making staggering
discoveries of unexpected human strength or weakness, thrusting men into
fame one day or to oblivion the next, there has been nothing more
dramatic than the sudden manifestation of the genius of the Dutchman,
Louis Raemaekers, who, as Europe recoiled from the first shock of German
barbarity, threw down his brush for his pencil and by the intensity of
his spirit aroused the compassion and fired the anger of the world with
his cartoons of the Belgian violation.

He, more than any other individual, has made intensely clear to
the people the single issue upon which the war is joined. More than
cartoonist, he is teacher and preacher, with the vision, faith, and
intensity of a St. Francis, a Luther, or a Joan of Arc.

On August 1, 1914, we find him a quiet, gentle man, the son of a country
editor, happy in his family, devout, contemplative, loving beauty and
peace, contentedly