Issue of the commemorative souvenir sheet: Victims of World War I

On the 11th June, 2014 the Ministry of Industry and Trade  of the Czech Republic is going to  issue a commemorative souvenir sheet with two different stamps in the denomination of  29  CZK and 3 coupons from the issue Wictims of World War I. The stamps depict war motifs.
The First World War (before 1939 known as the Great War or as the World War) was a global military conflict which lasted from 1914 to 1918. World War I hit Europe, Africa and Asia and also took place in the world's oceans. The immediate pretext for the war was the successful assassination of the archduke and heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand d'Este. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in retaliation, causing a chain reaction leading to World War I. Within one month, Europe found itself in a conflict.
The war broke out between the two coalitions: the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. At the outbreat of war  the Allied Powers were the United Kingdom (which participated in the war as a result of the German invasion of Belgium), France and Czarist Russia. The Allied powers were also joined by other countries, Italy in 1915 and the USA in 1917. The Central Powers were Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, joined later  by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (in 1915). By the end of the war only Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries remained neutral.

The battles of World War I took place on several fronts in Europe. On the Western Front, the fighting took place in the trenches (trench warfare). Over 60 million soldiers were mobilized from 1914 to 1918.
The war ended with the victory of the Allies and the surrender of the defeated Central Powers. The world celebrates the 11th November, 1918 as the end of World War I  -  at  11 a.m. there was a ceasefire on all fronts (11.11. at 11 a.m.), signed on the same day at 5:05 a.m. by the German Corps of Generals in the company wagon of the Supreme Commander of the Allied troops, the French Marshal Foch in Compiègne. The formal ending of the war occurred with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
The author of the souvenir sheet is the academic painter Jan Maget and the author of   engravings of FDC is the graphic artist and engraver Václav Fajt.
The stamps sized 40 x 50 mm per 2 pcs in the souvenir sheet sized 108 x 165 mm  has been printed  by  the Post  Printing House in Prague by multicoloured offset.  
There  will be  two  First Day Covers incl. commemorative cancellation. In the picture part of the cover to the first stamp  are depicted the military helmets and hats. In the picture part of the cover to the second stamp are depicted  portraits of war heroes with a two-headed eagle in the background and a lion in the front.  The both covers are printed by recess print from flat plates in black-green. On the cachet is depicted a barbed wire cross with a dove in the middle  and the text: Praha, 11. 6. 2014.
The souvenir sheet is valid  from  the 11th June, 2014.  
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Date of issue: 11th June, 2014
Graphic arrangement: Jan Maget
Engravings: Václav Fajt
Size of the souvenir sheet: 108 x 165 mm
Size of the stamp: 40 x 50  mm
Face value: 2 x 29 CZK
Method of the printing of the stamp: Multicoloured offset
Method of the printing of the FDC: Recess print from flat plates in black-green 
Subject of the stamps: War motifs
Number of the FDCs: 2 pc
Subject of the  FDC´s: 1. military helmets and hats
2. portraits of war heroes with the two-headed eagle in the background and a lion in the front
Editor: Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
Producer: Post Printing House, Ortenovo nám. 16, CZ-170 04 Praha 7
Supplier: PostFila, Export Department, Ortenovo nám. 16, CZ-170 24 Praha 7