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Description: | Concept: action, military personnel, military vehicles, landscape, civilian morale, uniform, roads, empire / commonwealth Description: whole: the four images occupy the majority, each held within a white border. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in black, held within a red inset. The text is separate and placed in the right half, in black. All set against a yellow background, and held within two red borders. image: the largest image is a photograph of British and Canadian troops waiting with their vehicles, watching a huge cloud of smoke fill the sky. The second image is a photograph of Allied troops and jeeps travelling along a river bank. The third image is a photograph of Allied trucks passing along a road. A tank is visible in a field to the left. The final image is a photograph of a group of British troops standing on a tank; other tanks behind also carry troops. text: WAR PICTORIAL LANDSCAPE OF THE WAR ON THE FRENCH FRONT 1 DAY TURNS INTO NIGHT - CANADIANS AND BRITISH WAIT AS THE BOMBERS GO IN. 2 DAWN IN FRANCE: THE BATTLE ABOUT TO BEGIN. 3 TRANSPORTS MOVE UP TOWARDS THE SCENE OF BATTLE. 4 'MILITARY IDIOTS', THE GERMANS CALLED THE BRITISH. THESE ARE THE MEN WHO, IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMMONWEALTH, U.S.A., AND OTHER ALLIED TROOPS, HAVE ROUTED THE POWERFUL GERMAN ARMIES IN FRANCE. 1 2 3 4 G.P.D./311/23/55 Object: telegraph pole, tank, truck, jeep, helmet, tank, ambulance | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2587... | Go to resource |
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