''The Illustrated War News'' with first issue, Volume 1 dated August 1914, was a weekly magazine during the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, published by the
Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd. of London, England.
History
At the outbreak of the war, the magazine ''
The Illustrated London News
''The Illustrated London News'' appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. Founded by Herbert Ingram, it appeared weekly until 1971, then less frequently thereafter, and ceased publication in ...
'' began to publish illustrated reports related entirely to the war and entitled it ''The Illustrated War News''. The magazine comprised 48 pages of articles, photographs, diagrams and maps printed in
landscape format
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. From 1916 it was issued as a 40-page publication in portrait format. It was reputed to have the largest number of artist-correspondents reporting on the progress of the war.
It ceased publication in 1918.
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