War Map: Pictorial Conflict Maps 1900-1950

by Philip Curtis, Jakob Sondergard Pedersen

This book examines the extraordinary and varied use of pictorial cartography as a propaganda tool in the first half of the 20th-century. Using superb high-quality illustrations and enlarging telling details, the stories behind these striking maps are brought vividly to life in all their variety over the 252 pages of this book. Designed to make an immediate and lasting impression, the power of these images continues to astonish today.

246 pages, Hardcover

Published October 6, 2016

About the author

UK teacher and author who is best known for the Mr Browser sequence of Young Adult sf novels, beginning with Mr Browser and the Brain Sharpeners (1979; vt Invasion of the Brain Sharpeners 1981), which comically, though sometimes pedantically, engage teachers and others with various challenges, some of them instigated by Aliens. The eponymous villains of Mr Browser and the Space Maggots (1989) are for instance responsible for the environmental deterioration of planet Earth towards the end of the twentieth century.
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