I had pigeonholed E.H. Shepard as the genius who illustrated Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows. Yet in an intriguing exhibition at the House of Illustration, London, Shepard’s sketches show the mud and shells of the World War I trenches.

Source: A Charmer in the Trenches by Jenny Uglow | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books