The Great War: A Photographic Narrative

Informationen zum Autor Imperial War Museum Klappentext The opening photograph is of the gun that fired the first shot of the war. The final photograph is of an audio recording showing the arrival of silence on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. This book offers a chronology of events and a historical summary, together with detailed captions for every picture. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Imperial War Museum, The Imperial War Museum
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780224096553
• ISBN: 978-0-224-09655-3
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 295 mm x 300 mm x 95 mm
• Series: JONATHAN CAPE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; First World War, HISTORY / World, military history, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Comics, Photographs: collections, c 1910 to c 1919, Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography