No Man's Land in the First World War
No Man's Land, illustration by Lucien Jonas, 1927.
Lucien Jonas was a French artist appointed as an official military painter after being mobilized in 1914, becoming one of the most prolific and renowned wartime artists of the First World War (1914-18). Here, Jonas depicts the scarred and blighted fields that characterized the positional warfare of the Western Front.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.