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Author: Richard Holmes Publisher: ISBN: 9781844423194 Category : World War, 1914-1918 Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Military history is now a best-selling publishing category, and in recent years there has been a spate of enormously successful books, films and television programmes devoted to it. The First World War in Photographs showcases 400 of the best images from the Imperial War Museum's superb photographic archive, many never before published. Written by leading military historian Richard Holmes, the book presents the photographs in year-by-year chapters, covering all the great battles of the war and every theatre of operations. Dramatic, hard hitting and intensely moving, this book is a unique visual testament to the many millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war.
Author: Richard Holmes Publisher: ISBN: 9781844423194 Category : World War, 1914-1918 Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Military history is now a best-selling publishing category, and in recent years there has been a spate of enormously successful books, films and television programmes devoted to it. The First World War in Photographs showcases 400 of the best images from the Imperial War Museum's superb photographic archive, many never before published. Written by leading military historian Richard Holmes, the book presents the photographs in year-by-year chapters, covering all the great battles of the war and every theatre of operations. Dramatic, hard hitting and intensely moving, this book is a unique visual testament to the many millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war.
Author: Carl de Keyzer Publisher: ISBN: 9780226284286 Category : Exhibition catalogs Languages : en Pages : 0
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One hundred years later, the First World War has returned to public consciousness, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Because the most popular cameras of the time were the Vest Pocket Kodak and other crude film cameras, the "look" of that Great War is grainy, blurred, and monochrome. This book presents a startlingly different First World War, one seen through rare glass plate photographs made by the war's most gifted cameramen, selected and digitally restored by Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer. Scanned from the original plates, with scratches and other flaws painstakingly removed, these oversized reproductions reveal the war in uncanny and previously unseen clarity. Also startling are the unfamiliar scenes selected by De Keyzer and elucidated by historian David Van Reybrouck: staged scenes of men in training (and of children imitating them), dramatic industrial photographs, landscapes of astonishing destruction, pictures of African colonial troops on the Western front, and postmortem portraits of thirteen Belgian soldiers killed in battle on the second day of the war. A quarter of the photographs in this book are in color, made with the autochrome process. The book includes a preface by Geoff Dyer, who refers to "the extraordinary power and surprise of this hoard of photographs" and discusses the disconcerting temporal effects of seeing such unusual pictures of a historical event we strongly associate with entirely different imagery.
Author: Max Arthur Publisher: Cassell Illustrated ISBN: 9781844037995 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Charting the Allies' entry into warfare in 1914, Max Arthur tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army's life through the five years of slaughter and suffering. He brilliantly conveys not only the heroism, but also the universal horror, futility, humour and boredom of warfare. From the front-line troops and the daily dice with death, to the support lines, communications, enlistment, training and propaganda, every aspect of the soldier's life is covered in this brilliant collection of images and interviews that brings the Great War to life once more.
Author: Ross Coulthart Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0008110395 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1136
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‘Lost Tommies’ brings together never-before-seen images of Western Front tommies and their amazing stories in a beautiful collection that is part thriller, part family history and part national archive.
Author: Pearl James Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803226950 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
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Essays by Jay Winter, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jennifer D. Keene, and others reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I.℗¡Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the.
Author: Jeff Maynard Publisher: Scribe Us ISBN: 9781947534179 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
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'He was a highly accomplished and absolutely fearless combat photographer. Wounded many times and even buried by shellfire, he always came through. At times he brought in the wounded, at other times he supplied vital intelligence of enemy activity. At one point he even rallied troops as a combat officer. His war record was unique.'-- General Sir John Monash, commander, Australian Army Corps Cameras were banned at the Western Front when the Anzacs arrived in 1916, prompting correspondent Charles Bean to argue continually for Australia to have a dedicated photographer. He was eventually assigned an enigmatic polar explorerâe%--âe%George Hubert Wilkins. Within weeks of arriving at the front, Wilkins' exploits were legendary. He went 'over the top' with the troops and ran forward to photograph the actual fighting. He led soldiers into battle, captured German prisoners, was wounded repeatedly, and was twice awarded the Military Crossâe%--âe%all while he refused to carry a gun and armed himself only with a bulky glass-plate camera. Wilkins ultimately produced the most detailed and accurate collection of World War I photographs in the world, which is now held at the Australian War Memorial. After the war, Wilkins returned to exploring and, during the next 40 years, his life became shrouded in secrecy. His work at the Western Front was forgotten, and others claimed credit for his photographs. InThe Unseen Anzac, Jeff Maynard follows a trail of myth and misinformation to locate Wilkins' lost records and reveal the remarkable, true story of Australia's greatest war photographer.
Author: Time-Life Films Publisher: Time Life Education ISBN: 9780316849012 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
Pictures created by scores of Life photographers and artists document the victories and losses of the Second World War and capture the many moods of wartime America
Author: Richard Holmes Publisher: Seven Oaks ISBN: 9781862004948 Category : World War, 1939-1945 Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book distills the very best of the Imperial War Museum's remarkable and vast photographic collection. It features many unseen images of the war, covering all theaters of operation and including the work of such renowned photographers as Cecil Beaton and Bill Brandt.
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