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13%OFFStephen Bull - The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front in Pictures - 9781612002309 - V9781612002309
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The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front in Pictures

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Description for The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front in Pictures Hardback. In Eight chapters of "The Old Front Line" we examine the Western Front geographically, looking closely at the main areas of fighting and what is visible today: not just the "iron harvest" - the scars left by trench and battle - but also the cemeteries, war memorials and statues that remind the visitor starkly of the loss of a generation. Num Pages: 192 pages, b/w and colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1062.
Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject-governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history. The anguish and privations are a bit further away, but there is still huge interest in the awful conditions and carnage endured by a generation of youth who sacrificed their lives for their country. The Old Front Line is a phrase first coined by the poet John Masefield when he looked back on the battle of the Somme from a distance of just one year, in 1917, and speculated how ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1054 g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781612002309
SKU
V9781612002309
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About Stephen Bull
Dr Stephen Bull is a museum curator and university external examiner who straddles the divide between the 'serious' and what most of the world actually wants to read. Interested in history from an early age he studied at the University of Wales, and has previously worked at the BBC and National Army Museum in London. Now Curator of Military History ... Read more

Reviews for The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front in Pictures
The Old Front Line by Stephen Bull and The Normandy Battlefields by Leo Marriott & Simon Forty are absolutely superb guides to some of the most important battlefields of the two world wars in Europe. Both of them are books I wish I had written and illustrated.
War History Online

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