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Editor Laurence Stallings, one-legged Marine, novelist (Plumes), playwright (What Price Glory);, scenarioist (The Big Parade), spent three years mulling over thousands of War pictures from every available source to make his selections. Says he: "A militarist will be disappointed with them for there are not enough pictures of guns and tactical groups. A pacifist will not find enough horror. . . . Here is the camera record of chaos." There is no running text. Editor Stallings' captions are terse, provocative, sometimes sarcastic. He quotes freely from Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger and Kipling. One could wish for far more detail with each...
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