War Primer

In this singular book written during World War Two Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.<br><br>He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media.<br><br>Pictures of catastrophic bombings propaganda portraits of leading Nazis scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield — all these images contribute to an anthology of horror from which Brecht’s perceptions are distilled in poems that are razor-sharp angry and direct.<br><br>The result is an outstanding literary memorial to World War Two and one of the most spontaneous revealing and moving of Brecht’s works.