The Great War: A Photographic Narrative

Author: The Imperial War Museum

Brand: Jonathan Cape

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 504

Release Date: 03-10-2013

Part Number: 37295312

Details: Product Description
As we mark the centenary of the end of World War One, this astonishing book collects over five hundred remarkable photographs and rarely seen material of the war from the Imperial War Museum archivesThe Great War was the first conflict to be documented in photographs. In The Great War: A Photographic Narrative, we follow the events of the war through extraordinary photographs, from the opening photograph of the gun that fired the first shot of the war to the final photograph of an audio recording showing the arrival of silence on 11th November 1918. Imperial War Museum houses one of the greatest photographic archives of conflict in the world. This unique book is divided into five sections, each prefaced with a detailed chronology of events and a historical summary, together with detailed captions for every picture.NOTE: Few pages are intentionally left blank.‘I have never seen or read anything that brings the First World War quite so vividly alive.’ Guardian
Review
I have never seen or read anything that brings the First World War quite so vividly alive. -- Mark Haddon ―
Guardian

Does [it] count as a book of the year? It's certainly my meticulously illustrated panorama of the year. -- Craig Taylor ―
Observer

Monumental. -- Nigel Jones ―
Sunday Telegraph Seven

Sampling this later photographic narrative, published ahead of next year's First World War centenary, left this reader feeling like Tommy Atkins after one of the Great Wa'’s artillery barrages: shell-shocked. -- Sean O'Grady ―
Independent

A spectacular pictorial history. -- Fanny Blake ―
Woman & Home
About the Author
Mark Holborn is known internationally as an editor of illustrated books. He has worked with many of the world’s leading photographers and artists, and with a number of the most important photographic archives.

EAN: 9780224096553

Package Dimensions: 11.9 x 11.7 x 1.6 inches

Languages: English