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The Great War: A Photographic Narrative
The Imperial War Museum
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Description for The Great War: A Photographic Narrative
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 296 x 296 x 40. Weight in Grams: 3254.
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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
504
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224096553
SKU
V9780224096553
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About The Imperial War Museum
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.
Reviews for The Great War: A Photographic Narrative
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more