What in the End Will Settle This War? Enlist Now – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with What in the End Will Settle This War? Enlist Now, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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What in the End Will Settle This War? Enlist Now
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This 1915 poster carries the blunt title "What in the End Will Settle This War? Enlist Now," a question that was meant to push men toward recruiting offices in the early years of the First World War. By 1915 the conflict had stalled into trench warfare on the Western Front, and governments on both sides were discovering that the volunteer rush of 1914 was not enough to fill the ranks. Posters like this one tried to turn an open-ended, grinding war into a personal duty, asking the viewer to imagine himself as the answer. It is worth reading the slogan closely, since the poster's power lies in the way it frames enlistment as the decisive act rather than a distant obligation.
| Created / published | 1915 |
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| Original scan | 4,131 × 5,164 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1747_What_in_the_end_will_se_1915 |
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