The Great War
A Photographic Narrative
Will be published approx. on 3. October 2013
Book
Hardback
504 pages
978-0-224-09655-3 (ISBN)
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 archives
The 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
The 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
Reviews / Votes
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 * More than 500 pictures follow the conflict on multiple fronts. -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler * This is rich, riveting and often appalling visual history. * New York Times * Showing the changing nature of photography, it also shows the extreme depth of the human loss incurred. * What Digital Camera * This has an astonishing photo on the cover... And there's no let-up in quality inside. Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts - she is the Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museum - have done a terrific job of putting together the most arresting images of the war. -- John Preston * Daily Mail * [A] handsomely produced volume... Unforgettable pictures. * Word of Interiors *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 296 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
3263 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-224-09655-3 (9780224096553)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.