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September 1914 and September 1915

Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
September 1914 and September 1915
September 1914 and September 1915
September 1914 and September 1915
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33028
Title
September 1914 and September 1915
Description
1914. "Now the war begins as we like it".

1915 " But this is not how I wished it to continue".

"The knock-out blow delivered by the French in Champagne in the last week of September 1915 was preceded by a terrific, continuous bombardment of the German trenches, which lasted from the 22nd to the 25th. The French whose aeroplane observers had taken a complete photographic map of the German positions, had rehearsed their troops for two months in attacks on a model of the Labyrinth, constructed behind their own lines. The German lost fortified ground on the whole of the seventeen mile front attacked, to a depth varying from one to five kilometres. The French took 25,000 prisoners ans claim that 110,000 Germans were killed and wounded. The French were repelled at the enemy's third line, and through within an ace of breaking through at several points, were held up by the Germans' "curtain" fire. The counter-attacks delivered by the Germans a week later were a failure".
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Date
1916
Size
34.0 x 25.5 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.