Vintage original 9 x 12 in. British souvenir book from the 1920's WWI-themed biopic drama, DAWN, released in 1928 in the UK by Woolf Freedman Film Service and directed by Herbert Wilcox. The film tells the real-life story of WWI Nurse Edith Cavell (Sybil Thorndike), who helped 210 men escape to England before the Germans apprehended and, tragically, executed her. The front cover depicts Sybil Thorndike in costume as the heroic British woman. It consists of 16 pages with beautiful black-and-white photographs from the film. It is complete in fine- condition. The former US ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, and several American German societies sought an injunction banning the film on the grounds that it would endanger US-German relations. They successfully pressured the Loew's movie chain to ban the film from all its theaters, saying it would "not meet with popular approval."