MUSEUMS & EVENTS

PERSUASIVE PROPAGANDA

The wartime work of a talented graphic artist is being displayed in an exhibition of over 100 posters at the National Army Museum

Abram Games (1914-96) was a pioneering graphic artist who was employed to create posters for the Public Relations Department at the British War Office from 1941-45. Games was a staunch socialist of Jewish refugee heritage who joined the British Army in 1940. This was at a time of social unrest when National Service was becoming an unthinkable necessity, particularly when memories were still fresh of