Zeppelin kommt! And a submarine too. A postcard by Kriwub on the threat German airships posed to the United Kingdom, and the fear they engendered in the British public.
Zeppelin kommt!KriwubReverse:Message postmarked Hannover, July 7, 1917
"Mr Britling says: 'Everywhere cunning, everywhere small feuds and hatreds, distrusts, dishonesties, timidities, feebleness of purpose, dwarfish imaginations, swarm over the great and simple issues . . . It is a war now like any other of the mobbing, many-aimed cataclysms that have shattered empires and devastated the world; it is a war without point, a war that has lost its soul, it has become mere incoherent fighting and destruction, a demonstration in vast and tragic forms of the stupidity and ineffectiveness of our species.'"
Excerpt from H. G. Wells' Mr Britling Sees it Through quoted by Siegfried Sassoon in his diary entry of December 27, 1916. Sassoon had been taken ill in July, and returned to England. On December 27th he learned he had been given another month's home service. H.G. Wells visited the front and reported on his experience and thoughts on the war in Italy, France And Britain At War, published in 1917.
Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918 by Siegfried Sassoon, pp. 109–110, copyright © George Sassoon, 1983; Introduction and Notes Rupert Hart-Davis, 1983, publisher: Faber and Faber, publication date: 1983
1916-12-27, 1916, December, Wells, H.G. Wells, H. G. Wells, Britling, Mr. Britling
