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THE HORROR OF IT -- CAMERA RECORDS OF WAR'S GRUESOME GLORIES |
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As Devastating a Document as Could be Devised for the Ending of War I HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK: "Let this book do its quiet work.... Here is war not seen through the lenses of anybody's prejudice but caught in the act by the camera." CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT: "Blessings on the camera which provides the means of teaching youth the terrible, undeniable facts of war.... May this book go far." THE REV. SIDNEY L. GULICK: "A real contribution to the fundamental program of education for peace.... I trust your book will be read widely."
Here are pictures which tell the story of war as words cannot tell it. Behind many of the plays and books written by those who fought the Great War lies determination not to forget, but to face again the past for the sake of the future. These men know that war isn't simply glory. They know that "for every Victoria Cross won, there must be 10,000 wooden crosses won." In this spirit the books' photographs have been collected, many of them originated in our own war archives and those of France and Germany, some from private collections, all authentic. Actual delineation of war is gruesome -- it cannot be otherwise. The eye of the camera catches the horrible facts, preserving them for posterity, a record shocking in its verity. "The Horror of It" is a true book -- ghastly true. Nothing like it ever before has been attempted. Inevitably it will stir up sensational approval and condemnation. Whether it be a plea for "pacifism" or for "preparedness," depends on the reader's viewpoint.
THE HORROR OF IT
Copyright, 1932 by FREDERICK A. BARBER
To Thomas and Marguerite and all the sons and daughters of the men who served in the World War with the hope that they may never know the horror of it except through books and pictures.
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