First World War Centenary
The Peace Palace Library will commemorate the First World War Centenary with a series of blogs and items on the website. The Library’s collection on the Great War is focused on aspects of international law: the laws of war, the Paris Peace Conference, the peace treaties of 1919-1920, the war reparations and the politics of its memory. For that purpose, an extensive Research Guide on the topic has been prepared as a starting point for research in the Library. Please, check our Research Guides menu.
Joan of Arc Saved France
November 21, 2014This poster by Haskell Coffin (1878-1941), was commissioned by the United States Treasury Department as part of the campaign to raise money for the First World War by having civilians buy war savings stamps.
Read moreKeep ‘em going!
November 20, 2014American propaganda poster: German Emperor Wilhelm II being hunted by a US locomotive.
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Read moreCome on Boys!
November 19, 2014United States National Guard recruitment poster. Marching soldiers. Some soldiers are making an inviting gesture. From our WOI Image collection.
Read moreWorld War One Poetry and Music, Tuesday 25 November, Peace Palace
November 19, 2014On Tuesday 25 November 2014, 19:45 hrs, a special ‘war poetry’ evening will take place in the Peace Palace to commemorate the First World War, based on a selection by Onno Kosters. Poems of well-known poets from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy, such as Siegfried Sassoon and John McCrae, Georg Trakl, Guillaume Apollinaire will be recited. The reading of the poems will be interlarded with music compositions and performances by Rénan Zelada closely linked to the First World War. A guided tour of the exhibition ‘Peace Illusion Disturbed’ is included.
Read morePostcard Peace Palace 1919 “Friedenspalast-Haag”
November 18, 2014Postcard from the days of the First World War. Dated 1919. With text in German.
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Read moreHachez, K. und O. Glaser, Kriegs ABC, Berlin, Arthur Collignon Verlag, 1915.
November 17, 2014Description: Hachez, K. und O. Glaser, Kriegs ABC, Berlin, Arthur Collignon Verlag, 1915. 12 pages with 24 colored lithographed illustrations. Format 19,5 x 138 cm.
Read moreDeutschlands Schicksal
November 13, 2014German propaganda poster that expresses Germany’s fear for British bombing of their industrial plants. Image: map of Germany’s main industrial area. Around the map bombers and destroyed industrial plants are depicted.
Read moreIf ye break faith – we shall not sleep
November 11, 2014Commemorative poster for World War I. A lone soldier stands in a field of poppies, his head bowed as he looks down at a simple wooden grave cross. The title of this poster is taken from the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ written by Dr. John McRae (1872-1918), a doctor serving in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
Read more“I summon you to Comradeship in the Red Cross”
November 11, 2014Recruitment poster for the American Red Cross. Red Cross nurse holding an American flag. On the background the Congress building is depicted. With a quote of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States: “I summon you to Comradeship in the Red Cross.”
Read moreStriner, R., Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden too Great to Bear, Lanham, Rowman Littlefield, 2014.
November 10, 2014This book is a story of presidential failure, a chronicle of Woodrow Wilson’s miscalculations in war, and a harrowing account of the process through which an intelligent American leader fell to pieces under a burden he could not bear.
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