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The Mad Shepherd

Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
The Mad Shepherd
The Mad Shepherd
The Mad Shepherd
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Item no
33467
Title
The Mad Shepherd
Description
"It is the men who have to take those lines with their bodies who have the difficult task, and those men, those German soldiers, know that every mile of the way will be another graveyard, and that strategy so simple as this means for them months of more sacrifice. But they will have to do it. The German High Command is not going to spare them. It will pour out their blood, 40 per cent of one battalion, 60 per cent of another, annihilation if necessary....

There is only one chance of avoiding these tremendous onslaughts, that the German people will be so horrified by this spilling of their soldiers' blood in the frenzied desire for a decisive victory that they will rise in passion against it, with cries against those who order it to go on. - Philip Gibbs, in a dispatch of 3rd May 1918."
Artist / maker
Date
1919
Size
22.5 x 33.8 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.