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The Second World War in Cartoons
296 pages, Hardcover
Published October 23, 2025
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January 8, 2026
What a fun way to learn the details of the 2nd World War! It features an international bevy of cartoonists appearing in newspapers ranging from the Akher Sa’a of Cairo, Egypt to the Kladderadatsch of Berlin, Germany to the News-Sentinel of the United States … generally placed three cartoons to a page, the blurb attached identifies the subject being criticized (or praised), and the background of the cartoon. For example, the book starts out with:
“PEACE OR FUTURE CANNON FODDER
The Tiger: ‘Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping!’
After four years of mass slaughter on the Western Front, the First World War came to an end at Versailles. The treaty, which represented peace for some and a diktat to others, sowed the seeds for the Second World War. This prophetic cartoon not only predicted that the Treaty would result in another war, but also the actual year (1940) when hostilities practically began. The cartoon shows the leaders of the victorious Allies, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemeneau, and Woodrow Wilson emerging from the Versailles Conference. As Clement Attlee would later put it: ‘That foreboding was justified.’ — 17 May 1919, Will Dyson, DAILY HERALD
The Daily Herald (no photo)
“PEACE OR FUTURE CANNON FODDER
The Tiger: ‘Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping!’
After four years of mass slaughter on the Western Front, the First World War came to an end at Versailles. The treaty, which represented peace for some and a diktat to others, sowed the seeds for the Second World War. This prophetic cartoon not only predicted that the Treaty would result in another war, but also the actual year (1940) when hostilities practically began. The cartoon shows the leaders of the victorious Allies, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemeneau, and Woodrow Wilson emerging from the Versailles Conference. As Clement Attlee would later put it: ‘That foreboding was justified.’ — 17 May 1919, Will Dyson, DAILY HERALD
The Daily Herald (no photo)
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