Heath Robinson’s Great War
The Satirical Cartoons
Distributed for the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
160 pages
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190 halftones
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7 1/2 x 10
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© 2015
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Some ‘Frightful’ War Pictures
Hunlikely!
The Saintly Hun
Introduction
Some ‘Frightful’ War Pictures
Hunlikely!
The Saintly Hun
Review Quotes
Times (UK)
“The first Heath Robinson trademark illustrations of madcap, wildly complicated contraptions appeared in 1908. And, as Britain tumbled into the Great War, his whimsical wit was in even greater demand as an antidote to too much reality. During its bloody course, he published three books, which have been republished in this single charming and nostalgic volume. . . . The extraordinary thing is how free of rancor the cartoons are. . . . These are happy cartoons from an unhappy time.”
Military History Monthly
“The term ‘Heath Robinson’ has passed into the English language to mean a hugely over-complicated, rickety contraption designed to do a very simple task in the most pointlessly elaborate way. . . . Robinson drew many cartoons lampooning the excesses of the First World War and poking fun at the German Army, bringing welcome comic relief to British soldiers and civilians.”
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