Picturing The Western Front
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Picturing The Western Front
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Author : Beatriz Pichel
language : en
Publisher: Cultural History of Modern War
Release Date : 2021-05-09
Picturing The Western Front written by Beatriz Pichel and has been published by Cultural History of Modern War this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-09 with categories.
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in personal albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. Picturing the Western Front argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians' war experiences. Doing photography (taking pictures, posing for them, exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them) allowed combatants and civilians to make sense of what they were living through. Photography mattered because it enabled combatants and civilians to record events, establish or reinforce bonds with one another, represent bodies, place people and events in imaginative geographies and making things visible, while making others, such as suicide, invisible. Photographic practices became, thus, frames of experience.
The Old Front Line
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Author : Stephen Bull
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2014-08-19
The Old Front Line written by Stephen Bull and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-19 with History categories.
Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject—governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history. The anguish and privations are a bit further away, but there is still huge interest in the awful conditions and carnage endured by a generation of youth who sacrificed their lives for their country. “The Old Front Line” is a phrase first coined by the poet John Masefield when he looked back on the battle of the Somme from a distance of just one year, in 1917, and speculated how the Western Front might look in the future. Stephen Bull’s copiously illustrated work—part travel guide, part popular history—a century on, answers his speculations. The main source material is new and contemporary photographs, as well as some from the intervening century. Taken together these provide a series of exciting vistas and informative details that tell the story of the battles and landscapes. Aerial photography, old and new ground shots—and in a few cases even images taken underground—provide an authoritative summary of the war on the Western Front. Following an introduction that sets the scene and looks at the early stages of the war, eight chapters examine the Western Front geographically, looking closely at the main areas of fighting and what is visible today: not just the “iron harvest”—the scars left by trench and battle—but also the cemeteries, war memorials and statues that remind the visitor starkly of the loss of a generation.
Salvage
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Author : Penleigh Boyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Salvage written by Penleigh Boyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Drawing, Australian categories.
The Western Front
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Author : Marcel Belley
language : en
Publisher: Uniform Press
Release Date : 2017
The Western Front written by Marcel Belley and has been published by Uniform Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
One of the rare books about the First World War thatvisually explores the efforts of the major combatants toremember the fallen along the entire length of the oldWestern Front.The area of Belgium and northern France that was theWestern Front is a place like no other. In a line runningseven hundred kilometers from the English Channelto the Swiss border the horrors of industrialised warconsumed men by the millions for over four years.When the War finally ended, entire societies were inshock and the ensuing outpouring of grief can be seentoday in the countless cemeteries and memorials thatdot the landscape.Much has been written of the British experienceand the work of the Commonwealth War GravesCommission including the major architects of nationalmemorials, but little material can be found regardingthe American, French and German sites.In 2013 Marcel and a friend travelled the entirelength of the Western Front. The images he capturedtell an amazing story and the chapters of the bookare organised in such a way as to help the reader tounderstand the stupendous efforts of the nationsinvolved to remember their fallen.
All Quiet On The Western Front
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
All Quiet On The Western Front written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Letters To Helen
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Author : Keith Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-04
Letters To Helen written by Keith Henderson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-04 with categories.
Excerpt from Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front But when the pictures were brought back from France it was suggested that they should be reproduced, and a book evolved. Then a certain person (who shall be nameless) conceived the dastardly idea of exposing private correspondence to the public eye. He proved wilful in the matter, and this book came into the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The First World War
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Author : Carl de Keyzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The First World War written by Carl de Keyzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Exhibition catalogs categories.
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.
All Quiet On The Western Front
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Author : Erich Maria Remarque
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2025-01-07
All Quiet On The Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-07 with Fiction categories.
The classic tale of a young soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time—featuring an Introduction by historian Norman Stone. Now a Netflix Film. When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another. Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants' physical and mental trauma, but dramatizes as well the tragic detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home. Remarque's stated intention—“to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war"—remains as powerful and relevant as ever, a century after that conflict's end." Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Trench
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Author : Stephen Bull
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-20
Trench written by Stephen Bull and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-20 with History categories.
The First World War was one of the costliest conflicts in history, much of it fought over a narrow and bloody swathe of France and Flanders. At the outbreak of war, it was anticipated that conventional battle would bring a quick resolution, but four years later, strategy, tactics and the material of war had changed almost beyond recognition. For most of that time, the two sides had been locked in the stalemate of trench warfare, a battle conducted along a Western Front of over 400 miles, in which almost 3 million men were killed. In this anniversary edition, World War I trench expert Stephen Bull provides a complete picture of trench warfare on the Western Front, from the construction of the trenches and their different types.
Major And Mrs Front S Definitive Battlefield Guide To Western Front North
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Author : Tonie Holt
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2018-10-30
Major And Mrs Front S Definitive Battlefield Guide To Western Front North written by Tonie Holt and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with History categories.
Following in their best-selling series of Battlefield Guides this is a companion volume to the Holts Western Front South Guide. Between the two, they cover the main WW1 Western Front battlefields. This book covers 15 of the most significant battles of the northern area from Nieuwport to just north of The Somme.Whether travelling on the ground or in the mind, the reader is carefully guided through the battlefields with a mixture of succinct military history, cameo memories and stories of VCs and other personalities, interspersed with references to the literature and poetry of the war.This guidebook is based on Tonie and Valmai Holt's 30 years experience of researching, guiding tours and writing about the area, with their unique blend of male and female points of view. It is written to the high standards that have come to be expected of these highly respected authors who are credited with pioneering the modern battlefield tour and whose guide books are referred to as 'The Bibles' . This new edition contains: Brief Historical Background and Summary of each battle, Opening Moves and What Happened, with appropriate quotations Sketch Map for each battle showing battle lines, routes etc and all points of interest described on each timed itinerary Large Sketch Map putting the battlefields (north and south) into perspective Memorials, Museums, Sites of Interest (bunkers, craters etc) War Grave Cemeteries Allied and German GPS Location for every recommended stop War Graves and Commemorative Associations Cameos about individual personalities Useful Tourist Information Where to stay and eat