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A carefully selected collection of World War I images, showcasing a range of striking, rare and personal photographs of the conflict.This is the pictorial story of the triumph of the human spirit through conflict, starting with the Second Boer War at the start of the 20th century through to the World Wars. These thought-provoking images of leaders, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and those who were committed to their care and healing, demonstrate that even during the worst of times, simple human compassion and collaboration often prevails.
Through featuring many memorable yet relatively unknown images, some taken by ordinary soldiers rather than official war photographers, and others gathered from great UK photographic archives such as the Hulton-Deutsch Collection, the Keystone library, Alamy, and the National Library of Scotland, the great treasures of our pictorial history hidden in these collections is revealed.
List of contents
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Foreword by the HRH the Duke of Kent
Introduction
The Royal Family
Kitchener
Haig
Freyberg
Leach
Dimmer
Pershing
Ball
Rickenbacker
An Audacious Encounter
Freemasons and the War
Outbreak Of War
In the Field
Men Marching and Machines
In the Air
Women At War and At Home
The Middle East Campaign
War Animals
US Entry and War's End
About the author
Brian Deutsch, Catherine Plunkett
Summary
A carefully selected collection of World War I images, showcasing a range of striking, rare and personal photographs of the conflict.
This is the pictorial story of the triumph of the human spirit through conflict during World War I's four long years of trench warfare, aerial combat and naval clashes. These thought-provoking images of leaders, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and those who were committed to their care and healing, demonstrate that even during the worst of times, simple human compassion and collaboration often prevails.
Through featuring many memorable yet relatively unknown images, some taken by ordinary soldiers rather than official war photographers, and others gathered from great UK photographic archives such as the Hulton-Deutsch Collection, the Keystone library, Alamy, and the National Library of Scotland, the great treasures of our pictorial history hidden in these collections is revealed.
Foreword
A carefully selected collection of World War I images, showcasing a range of striking, rare and personal photographs of the conflict.
