War From War foto companion

Before the Great War, on both open doors of the family store, like a Chinese divination, is the name of the skeptical Austro-Hungarian philosopher, who put sense experience before language, in an ironic endorsement of this Foto Companion, to my biography, War From War, which puts (some seventy) pictures before words.
These are not war pictures, tho they show the effects of war about the civilian interlude, beginning with my grandfather among casualties to World War I, and ending with the call-up of my father among conscripts to World War II.