Barbed Wire World speed record London by King William IV

London by King William IV and Queen Adelaide

A couple walking toward windsor Castle in a cold winter day

The facing page is an approved [in pencil] proof version of captions

West Smithfield

Barbed Wire World speed record London by King William IV'Barbed Wire', 1916. Plate 67 from The Great War: A Neutral's Indictment by Louis Raemaekers. The Dutch graphic artist Louis Raemaekers (1869 1956) produced fiercely anti German cartoons during the First World War. The Germans offered a substantial reward for him, dead or alive, and the Dutch government, under pressure from Germany, placed Raemaekers on trial on a charge of endangering Dutch neutrality. He was acquitted, but fled to England because of