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This compilation provides an alternative view of the
war to end all wars than that provided by the official multi-volume History
of the Great War (1922-1987). The humorous magazine Punch provided a series
of technically accomplished political cartoons to raise morale. The one
displayed "The haunted ship: ghost of the old pilot" is an allusion
to an earlier famous cartoon "Dropping the pilot", which had
appeared in 1890 when Kaiser Wilhelm, jealous of the popularity of Otto von
Bismark (1815-1898) dismissed the
statesman who had been instrumental in uniting the German states. |
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