Judge — February 1934 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THEFIRST WORLD WAR No book in years has received such unreserved praise from men and wo- men of eminence. The comments be- low could be multiplied, from letters and editorials, a hundred times over. CHARLES A. BEARD “A smashing book of exposition, inter- pretation, and damnation. | hope that it gives all the Captains and Kings the night- mare they deserve, to the end of the world You may quote me as saying this ARTHUR BRISBANE “Nobody will ever write a book that will tell as much about the war as those pictures can tell. There is the war before you WALTER LIPPMANN “Thave seen a great many photographs like these betore but put together as they are in this book they are overwhelming in their power to coavey the awful truth HEYWOOD BROUN “+... the best of the war books. “Tactical Blunder,’ standing in black type uoder the picture of dead men in a trench, says just as much as anybody has achieved in a hundred thousand words.”” HERVEY ALLEN “All that can be done with the visual sense to give the reader of this book a personal experience of warfare has been accomplished The photograph editing is superb, and Mr. Stallings’ captions little less” than miraculous.” HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE. 23, Motey was in my office when it arrived, and it took brute force to drag him away from the pictures after he had started to look at them." IDA M. TARBELL “I think 1 have never been 40 stirred by y captions, They are so grim and understai WEE 5. Never have I seen a book which better proved the self-deception, the insanity and unspeakable horror of war. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER “rruty this is s mos: re- markable production, and | trust will be fouad in ehousands upon thousands of ovr public libraries and schools where the youth of today may obtain through the eye the most vivid of impressions of the horrors, the cruclties and barbarities of war.” { { ) SEWING USSU Flaw ees g FREE - (02 your Linary -—to those who join the Book-of-the- Month Club at this time... it costs nothing to belong and you donot havetotake abook every month E suggest that you send the coupon below to get full information as to what the Book-of- the-Month Club does for book-readers. ‘Are you aware, for instance, that as a member you are never obliged to take the specific book-of-the-month chosen by the judges? You may buy it or not, as you please, after reading the judges’ pre-publication report about it, There are no dues, no fees, no fixed charges of any kind. You simply pay the regular retail price for such books as you decide to buy. What then is the advantage of joining? There are many, for instance, book-dividends: for every dollar its members spend on books they receive back on the average over $0% in the form of free books. There are many other advantages not readily measurable in money, that cannot be out- lined here for lack of space. Surely, within the next year, the distinguished judges of the Club will choose as the book-of-the- month or recommend as alternates, at least a few books that you will be very anxious not to miss and which you will buy anyway. Why not—by joining the Club—make sure you get these instead of missing them, which so often happens; get the really substantial advantages the Club affords, and at the same time get a copy of THE FIRST WORLD WAR, free. mee ee BOOK -OF-THE-MONTH CLUB, 1: 386 FOURTH AVENUE, New York, N. Y. ease send me without cost, a booklet outlining how the Book-of-the-Month Club operates. This request involves me in no obligation to subscribe to your service NAME ADDRESS ary... desmeaenaesonieeiaae < STATE as Books shipped to Canadian members theowgh Book-of-the- Month Club (Canada) Limited comicbooks.com