Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1

In this vivid volume the early months of the Great War are told through the stark, incisive drawings of a Dutch artist who turned his easel into a weapon of truth. When the conflict erupted in 1914, the creator abandoned peaceful landscapes and began sketching the human cost of the invasion, producing images that cut straight to the heart of the struggle between oppression and liberty.

The collection gathers a hundred of those first‑year cartoons, each a compact lesson in the realities of the battlefield and the suffering of civilians, especially the horrors reported in Belgium. Presented with the original captions that accompanied their newspaper debut, the plates reveal how a single pen can stir compassion, outrage, and a call for justice. Listeners will hear the story of an ordinary man transformed into a visual chronicler, whose work helped shape public opinion at a time when the world desperately needed a clear view of the war’s moral stakes.