War of format 9x14. Postcards in the German Culture of War 1914–1918

The monograph is devoted to a comprehensive study of German postcards as a phenomenon of “culture of war”, which integrates mentality, everyday practices, as well as propaganda and ideology in their interaction and mutual influence. The book discusses the existence of postcards in public and private spaces, the specifics of the postcards as a mass commercial product that turns it into a “mirror of a folk soul”. The functions of postcards in fixing and memorialization of front -line experience are studied, the relationship of visual images and personal messages of correspondents is studied, visual explanatory models proposed by cards to interpret the meaning of war, understanding the German nation, and the creation of images of its allies and enemies.
The book is addressed to historians, teachers and university students, as well as all those interested in the history of Germany and the First World War