Original British WWI poster titled YOUR COUNTRY WANTS YOU AND 300,000 MORE MEN

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Original British WWI poster titled "YOUR COUNTRY WANTS YOU AND 300,000 MORE MEN LIKE YOU DON'T WAIT BUT JOIN NOW"Creator: Unknown (Undefined), C W Faulkner and Co Ltd (printer)PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE (publisher/sponsor)Production date: 1915the title occupies the majority, in blue and in red, set against a light brown background and held within a narrow red border and a wide dark brown border. The text is positioned across the top and across the bottom, in white against the dark brown border. image: text only. text: YOUR COUNTRY WANTS YOU AND 300,000 MORE MEN LIKE YOU DON'T WAIT BUT JOIN NOW Published By The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London. Poster No. 102. Printed by C.W. Faulkner and Co., Ltd., London, E.C.Measures: 39" x 24"(See Photos for damage.). Guaranteed Original. The Curator of the Museum at West Point, has looked at the piece and verbally authenticated it as original. Very good condition. Super rare in this condition. Not backed.Truly fantastic piece of history. A must for the SERIOUS Collector / Scholar of WWI history.Brief History of WWIA Brief Outline of the First World WarDefining World War IThose who fought in WWI believed they were fighting for noble reasons: for defense against aggression, for the love of one's country and for glory. Coming into the war they were fueled by the ideals of nationalism, liberalism, democracy and religious freedom. After the Armistice of November 11th 1918, WWI came to be defined by our need to find the meaning for such losses. Exactly what was the significance of the First World War? Was this not the same message John McCrae had given expression to, three and a half years before Armistice in his poem IN FLANDERS FIELDS?John McCrae struggled to make some sense out of a senseless war. His plea "If ye break faith with us who die...we shall not sleep" was made on behalf of the fallen soldiers but it is one that has been embraced by the generations that followed. In this 90th year since the end of WWI (and since the death of John McCrae) the struggle to find some justification for the loss of so many still remains... not just in the "War to End All Wars" but in every major conflict since WWI.WWI -- An Accidental WarWorld War I shaped the 20th century. It launched the United States as a world super power and helped commonwealth countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand find a sense of National Identity. WWI fueled the Russian Revolution and her ascent as the world's first communist state. The First World War helped occupied countries like Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary to gain their independence but it also set the stage for World War II only a couple decades later. Yet, WWI began almost by accident.The Serbian & Austro-Hungarian ConflictThere were three great European powers at the start of the 20th century; The Austro-Hungarian, the Russians and the Ottoman Empire. On June 28th, 1914 in Sarajevo, Serbian Gavrilo Princip, in an act of terrorism, assassinated the heir apparent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Austro-Hungarian Empire contained up to ten different nationalities and kept the peace on the western borders. It was ruled by Franz Ferdinand's uncle, Franz Joseph who had been in power for 66 years. Serbia had set itself up as an independent state by 1914 and viewed Franz Joseph and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the oppressive, undemocratic enemy. Serbia hoped to somehow break up the Austro-Hungarian Empire and opposed any kind of friendship. Unlike his uncle, Franz Ferdinand believed in political reform. As the Emperor-in-waiting, his ideas were radical. He believed that after decades of oppressive ruling, the existing political system was one that simply could not last. He wanted to avoid war with Serbia and felt that minorities within the empire would look to other countries for help if they didn't have the power to govern themselves within the empire. His vision was to create a new empire called the "United States of Great Austria," in hopes of... read more

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