WWI Battle Marne Reims German Attack Postcard Booklet Ruins Destroyed City 1918

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Estate sale find, vintage WWI partial
postcard
booklet (10 cards left) of Reims in ruins.
The city of Reims saw significant destruction, and both civilian and military casualties. But no event ignited indignation as did the bombing of the much-venerated Notre-Dame de Reims. The cathedral was first hit by shell fire on September 19th, 1914.
Wooden scaffolding that was in place for ongoing repairs caught fire, and contributed to the damage, as did several smaller fires that resulted from the attack.
Though the cathedral would be struck again and again as the war continued, it was this initial shelling that sparked a firestorm of outrage, horror, and prodigious propaganda—surely here was damning proof that the Germans were indeed “barbarians,” so lacking in culture themselves that they were compelled to destroy the beauty of another culture out of sheer spite and jealousy.
The propaganda insisted that there was no reason to bomb the church since it had no strategic military value, and was a place of sanctuary.
The French and their allies stressed that there was no justification to shell the cathedral especially given that was being used to house the wounded (mainly German soldiers callously left behind by their fleeing brothers-in-arms).
Approximately 3.75″ X 6″ overall, (10 cards left) shipping weight approximately 4 ounces.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS – AS IS – MISSING CARDS – 10 REMAIN –  The postcard booklet is in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition with signs of wear, tears, creases, fading, sunning and age toning, soiling, stains, writing, no odors, please see images.
(C1C17-102)