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Background information
"Brecht's 'War Primer' is THE great anti-war book. It was first published in 1955, one year before his death, and since then (hardly changed, e.g. 1968, 1978, 1994) in many countries (currently other, older editions are also available at Café Lehmitz Photobooks).
Content
This new, sixth edition of the book 'War Primer' was edited by Barbara Brecht-Schall. She recalls the genesis of the book and how her father, in exile in Denmark, began collecting clippings from newspapers and annotating these pictorial documents with verse." (© Eulenspiegel, 2008)
Additional information
The book 'Kriegsfibel' by Brecht/Brecht-Schall is included in 'The Photobook: A History', edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. The book also formed the template for the photo volume 'War Primer 2' by Adam BROOMBERG & Oliver CHANARIN (2011, 2018)
About German author, Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the editor, Barbara Brecht-Schall
- Format
- Actual print run, HC with dust jacket, 25 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 200 pp., b/w ills., text language: German (archive material with english text)