The Horror of It: Camera Records of War's Gruesome Glories
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The Horror of It: Camera Records of War's Gruesome Glories
by Frederick A. Barber
with forewords by Carrie Chapman Catt and Harry Emerson Fosdick
arranged by Frederick A. Barber of Historical Foundations
© 1932 by Frederick A. Barber
NOTICE: THIS WORK MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT
When George Palmer Putnam went to the War Department to secure photographs for "The Horror of It," a little volume containing stark pictures of the war, which has just been published, Major General Carr of the Signal Corps refused to show him any pictures showing war's gruesome results. "Only those photographs showing the pleasant aspects of war can be released," the General said. "The Department has a moral obligation to the Gold Star Mothers."
Table of Contents:
• Inside Cover
• "The Horror of It," a Book Depicting War Realities, Remarks by Hon. Ross A. Collins of Mississippi in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1932
• Foreword by Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.
• Foreword by Carrie Chapman Catt
• Acknowledgments
• Poems and Photographs
1. The Illusion of War, by Richard LeGallienne
2. The Moving Finger
3. The Start
4. The Finish
5. Birds
6. Flies
7. Windrow
8. Transport
9. Cold Steel
10. Harvest
11. The Hunters
12. The Hunted
13. Remains
14. Remember Again!, by R.W. Stewart
15. Blackness
16. Prayers
17. Pyre
18. Putrefaction
19. Slaughter
20. Food
21. Man-Trap
22. Dog-Trap
23. "On The Wire," by Robert W. Service
24. On the Wire
25. Flight
26. Overtaken
27. Hanging
28. Execution
29. Nooses
30. Youth
31. "The Other Side and Other Poems," by Capt. Gilbert Frankau
32. Machine
33. Silent
34. The Nest
35. Ambulance
36. Waiting
37. "In Flanders," by James Norman Hall
38. Inferno
39. Field of Glory
40. Watery Grave
41. Landscape
42. City Street
43. Abandoned
44. Bones
45. "The Inexcusable Lie," by Harold R. Peat
46. At His Post
47. Decapitated
48. Firing Step
49. "Only a Boche," by Robert W. Service
50. Crumpled
51. Life's Blood
52. Asphyxiated
53. At Rest
54. Shrapnel Wound
55. "Song and Cry of a Soldier in the Lines," by Albert Edward Clements
56. Good Soldiers
57. Soldiers
58. Civilians
59. Starving
60. Starved
61. A Word Picture from "War's Hellish Panorama"
62. Famine
63. Debris
64. Left Behind
65. Where They Fell
66. Derelict
67. Mass Grave
68. Homeless
69. Shell Shattered
70. No Man's Land
71. Destruction
72. Desecration
73. Sacrilege
74. Devotion
75. To a Nine Inch Gun, by Anonymous
76. Civilization (?)
77. Cause
78. Effect
79. The Iron Cross
80. The Wooden Cross
81. "The Night Sowers," by Clinton Scollard
82. The Night Sowers
83. Thoroughfare
84. Roadside
85. Those Who Went
86. And Came Back
87. Those Who Went
88. And Never Came Back
89. "God's Challengers," by Marion Perham Gale
90. A Mother's Son
91. The Stretcher Bearer
92. Cart Load
93. Cannon Fodder
94. Until the Judgment Day
by Frederick A. Barber
with forewords by Carrie Chapman Catt and Harry Emerson Fosdick
arranged by Frederick A. Barber of Historical Foundations
© 1932 by Frederick A. Barber
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When George Palmer Putnam went to the War Department to secure photographs for "The Horror of It," a little volume containing stark pictures of the war, which has just been published, Major General Carr of the Signal Corps refused to show him any pictures showing war's gruesome results. "Only those photographs showing the pleasant aspects of war can be released," the General said. "The Department has a moral obligation to the Gold Star Mothers."
Table of Contents:
• Inside Cover
• "The Horror of It," a Book Depicting War Realities, Remarks by Hon. Ross A. Collins of Mississippi in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1932
• Foreword by Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.
• Foreword by Carrie Chapman Catt
• Acknowledgments
• Poems and Photographs
1. The Illusion of War, by Richard LeGallienne
2. The Moving Finger
3. The Start
4. The Finish
5. Birds
6. Flies
7. Windrow
8. Transport
9. Cold Steel
10. Harvest
11. The Hunters
12. The Hunted
13. Remains
14. Remember Again!, by R.W. Stewart
15. Blackness
16. Prayers
17. Pyre
18. Putrefaction
19. Slaughter
20. Food
21. Man-Trap
22. Dog-Trap
23. "On The Wire," by Robert W. Service
24. On the Wire
25. Flight
26. Overtaken
27. Hanging
28. Execution
29. Nooses
30. Youth
31. "The Other Side and Other Poems," by Capt. Gilbert Frankau
32. Machine
33. Silent
34. The Nest
35. Ambulance
36. Waiting
37. "In Flanders," by James Norman Hall
38. Inferno
39. Field of Glory
40. Watery Grave
41. Landscape
42. City Street
43. Abandoned
44. Bones
45. "The Inexcusable Lie," by Harold R. Peat
46. At His Post
47. Decapitated
48. Firing Step
49. "Only a Boche," by Robert W. Service
50. Crumpled
51. Life's Blood
52. Asphyxiated
53. At Rest
54. Shrapnel Wound
55. "Song and Cry of a Soldier in the Lines," by Albert Edward Clements
56. Good Soldiers
57. Soldiers
58. Civilians
59. Starving
60. Starved
61. A Word Picture from "War's Hellish Panorama"
62. Famine
63. Debris
64. Left Behind
65. Where They Fell
66. Derelict
67. Mass Grave
68. Homeless
69. Shell Shattered
70. No Man's Land
71. Destruction
72. Desecration
73. Sacrilege
74. Devotion
75. To a Nine Inch Gun, by Anonymous
76. Civilization (?)
77. Cause
78. Effect
79. The Iron Cross
80. The Wooden Cross
81. "The Night Sowers," by Clinton Scollard
82. The Night Sowers
83. Thoroughfare
84. Roadside
85. Those Who Went
86. And Came Back
87. Those Who Went
88. And Never Came Back
89. "God's Challengers," by Marion Perham Gale
90. A Mother's Son
91. The Stretcher Bearer
92. Cart Load
93. Cannon Fodder
94. Until the Judgment Day