Le livre rouge des atrocités allemandes : d'après les rapports officiels des gouvernements français, anglais et belge par l'image - The Red Book of German Atrocities: According to the Official Reports of the Governments of France, England and Belgium - in Pictures. A booklet describing in pictures the atrocities committed by the Germans on an innocent population at the outbreak of the First World War, by Paul Escudier and Jean Richepin (from the French Academy). Cover design by C. Léandre - a woman representing Germany waving a sword with murdered human skeletons at her feet. Paris, [1916]. The purpose of the pamphlet was to arouse the countries that at the time maintained neutrality to join the war and strike the cruel German enemy.
A booklet documenting the crimes of the Germans at the outbreak of the First World War. 40 plates of illustrated scenes made from official reports of France and Belgium. Next to each illustration is a section of a French report documenting the crimes the Germans committed against an innocent population - attacking old women and children and murdering them in France and Belgium after the Germans entered the cities. In the introduction by Paul Escudier, Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Member of Parliament in Paris, he goes on to describe the brutality of the Germans in the countries conquered by them in the war. Next to each illustration is a quote from a French official report describing the horrific scene that appears in it.
All of them show German soldiers abusing and murdering a civilian population, alongside a section of official French or Belgian reports documenting the event.
[8], 40 plates [6] p. Some of the last panels are disconnected. Slight tears in the upper and lower part of the spine. Stains on the cover on the right. General condition good .
