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Book The First World War in Photographs

Download or read book The First World War in Photographs written by Richard Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The First World War in Photographs

Download or read book The First World War in Photographs written by Richard Holmes and published by Carlton Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic, hard hitting, and intensely moving, this book is a unique visula testament to the many millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war, and a reminder to today's younger generations.

Book 1914 The First World War in Photographs

Download or read book 1914 The First World War in Photographs written by John Christopher and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1914, the first year of the war to end all wars, is documented in archive photographs in this, the first of a series covering the war in detail.

Book The First World War

Download or read book The First World War written by Carl de Keyzer and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Faces of World War I

    Book Details:
  • Author : Max Arthur
  • Publisher : Cassell Illustrated
  • Release : 2014-08-04
  • ISBN : 9781844037995
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Faces of World War I written by Max Arthur and published by Cassell Illustrated. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book First World War Photographers

Download or read book First World War Photographers written by Jane Carmichael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs of the First World War offer an extraordinary range of images, and in this book Jane Carmichael draws on her great expertise and knowledge in this area to look at how those photographs came to be taken. She examines the work of the official, press and amateur photographers, and reproduces over 100 photographs from the archive of the Imperial War Museum, one of Britain's great photographic collections. She focuses on the growing use of the photograph as a medium for the masses and as a historical document, making us aware of the operations of propaganda and journalism during the period and enhancing our appreciation of the photographic documents of the war.

Book The First World War in Colour

Download or read book The First World War in Colour written by Peter Walther and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colours of catastrophe: Rediscovered autochrome photography of the First World War The devastating events of the First World War were captured in myriad photographs on all sides of the front. Since then, thousands of books of black-and-white photographs of the war have been published as all nations endeavour to comprehend the scale and the carnage of the "greatest catastrophe of the 20th century". Far less familiar are the rare colour images of the First World War, taken at the time by a small group of photographers pioneering recently developed autochrome technology. To mark the centenary of the outbreak of war, this groundbreaking volume brings together all of these remarkable, fully hued pictures of the "war to end war". Assembled from archives in Europe, the United States and Australia, more than 320 colour photos provide unprecedented access to the most important developments of the period - from the mobilization of 1914 to the victory celebrations in Paris, London and New York in 1919. The volume represents the work of each of the major autochrome pioneers of the period, including Paul Castelnau, Fernand Cuville, Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, Léon Gimpel, Hans Hildenbrand, Frank Hurley, Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud and Charles C. Zoller. Since the autochrome process required a relatively long exposure time, almost all of the photos depict carefully composed scenes, behind the rapid front-line action. We see poignant group portraits, soldiers preparing for battle, cities ravaged by military bombardment - daily human existence and the devastating consequences on the front. A century on, this unprecedented publication brings a startling human reality to one of the most momentous upheavals in history.

Book The Lost Tommies

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  • Author : Ross Coulthart
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2016-05-05
  • ISBN : 0008110395
  • Pages : 1136 pages

Download or read book The Lost Tommies written by Ross Coulthart and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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.

Book 1917 The First World War in Photographs

Download or read book 1917 The First World War in Photographs written by John Christopher and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1917, the fourth year of the war to end all wars, is documented in archive photographs in this series covering the war in detail.

Book The Great War Illustrated   1915

Download or read book The Great War Illustrated 1915 written by William Langford and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared, and continue to appear, in present-day publications and TV documentary programmes many did not. The Great War Illustrated series will include in its pages many rarely seen images with individual numbers allocated and subsequently they will be lodged with the Taylor Library Archive for use by editors and authors.The Great War Illustrated 1915 covers the 1915 Gallipoli campaign and the battles that commenced on the Western Front that year. Some images will be familiar many will be seen for the first time by a new generation interested in the war that changed the world forever. With over 1,000 painstakingly restored images, this will be a definitive picture reference book on 1915 and will appeal to enthusiasts, collectors and student of the period alike.

Book The Great War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Various
  • Publisher : Candlewick Press
  • Release : 2015-04-14
  • ISBN : 0763675547
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Great War written by Various and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.

Book Picture This

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pearl James
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0803226950
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Picture This written by Pearl James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production

Download or read book Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production written by Joshua Stoff and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-12-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 250 rare photographs depict one of the greatest industrial feats of all time: America's massive production of World War II fighters and bombers. An introduction and captions outline the history.

Book Picturing the Western Front

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  • Author : Beatriz Pichel
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-18
  • ISBN : 1526151898
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Picturing the Western Front written by Beatriz Pichel and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book 1918 The First World War in Photographs

Download or read book 1918 The First World War in Photographs written by John Christopher and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1918, the fifth year of the war to end all wars, is documented in archive photographs in this series covering the war in detail.

Book Disenchantment

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  • Author : C. E. Montague
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-08-12
  • ISBN : 3368370502
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Disenchantment written by C. E. Montague and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book A New Illustrated History of World War II

Download or read book A New Illustrated History of World War II written by Various and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensively illustrated account of the six-year-global conflict that transformed world politics and shaped the course of modern history.