Josef Čapek/Georges Duhamel: ZE ŽIVOTA MUČEDNÍKŮ. Published by Alois Srdce, Prague 1919. 21 x 13 cm. 103 p. Czech translation from the French by Růžena Říhová. Or. paperback with a linocut in red-brown by Josef Čapek. With another full-page linocut by Josef Čapek in black at the end of the book. Reference: Pomajzlová 12
One of the earliest book covers by Josef Čapek, of which Alena Pomajzlová lists over 400 cover designs in her catalogue raisonné, most of them executed as linocuts or colour linocuts."In their simplicity, expressiveness, originality, and unmistakable signature style, his covers attempt to bring together the fileds of applied and fine art." (Alena Pomajzlová: Seeing the Book / The Book Design of Josef Čapek. With a catalogue raisonné of the book covers. Prague 2010, p. 190)
In Georges Duhamel's first novel "Vie des Martyrs", published in 1917 in the "Mercure de France" (published in English as "The New Book of Martyrs"), the author describes his experiences as a front-line doctor in the First World War.
