The Amazing Story of the Kitchener Poster

The words Your Country Needs You are echoes of the First World War a time very different from today. This book explores that world through a remarkable poster whose words and the image have influenced millions of people across the world. Here is a picture of the lifestyles enjoyed by people at the time, events that surrounded the recruitment campaign and glimpses of the Edwardian era when cars and telephones were rare and magazines and newspapers were the new media. Here are the answers to many of the theories about the poster, about Kitchener and about the war itself. This book also contains an explanation of why this poster, among hundreds of others, has survived. Much of this information is new, investigated by the authors using original artefacts, artwork, magazines, posters, newspapers and photographic records.