Baggage to the Enemy

Author: Edward Ardizzone

Publisher: John Murray; The Right Book Club, London

Publication Date: 1942

Amusing reminiscences from the time when Ardizzone was one of a small number of Official War Artists during WW2. The book begins in Arras when he and Edward Bawden were billeted in a local hotel. Illustrated throughout by the author.

This gallery is composed of photo scans of the printed illustrations.

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Cover

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Title page

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We threaded our way up the street again and had almost reached the bridge

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I accompanied the battery once on an exercise through the forest

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The battery absorbed all the billeting space in the village.

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The streets of course, were filled with soldiers, and officers

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Every morning we breakfasted in a special room

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Troops in the Birka

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Guards on the march

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