The Battlefields of the First World War

This spectacular visual chronicle brings together 200 previously unseen panoramic images of World War I, covering the Western Front from end to end and from all years of the war. Taken at huge personal risk by the Royal Engineers for secret intelligence purposes, they reveal what no other photographs can. Each panorama offers a view of up to 160 degrees, so sharply focused that the individual figures of a waiting sniper or a louse-tortured infantryman can be made out. Introduced by historian Richard Holmes, and published in association with London's Imperial War museum, this collection reveals the landscape of World War I as it really was: rural landscapes and villages appear alongside the ruinous muddy wastes that epitomise war-torn France in the modern imagination.

Here are the great battlefields of the First World War as you have never seen them before, from the sites of the first cavalry skirmishes, through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele, to the final weeks of conflict. This unique collection of panoramic photographs covers each of the British sectors of the Western Front, end to end. The vast battlescapes are interspersed with poignant individual photographs and the recollections of the soldiers caught in the action.
This expanded new edition includes a recently discovered trove of 60 German panoramas - not seen for almost 90 years. Some of these extraordinary images are reproduced in detail in the printed book, while the full complement of 350 German and British panoramas is made available on the accompanying DVD-Rom in interactive, zoomable form.

Combines detailed panoramic photographs of World War I battlefields taken by the British and German armies for intelligence purposes with photographs of the same sites today, information on the history, and soldiers' sketches and memorabilia.

General

ISBN		9781845298845
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Osprey Pub Co
Pages		392
List Price		$89.95
Author		Barton, Peter Doyle, Peter
Publication Date		12/30/2008
Release Status		In Print
Format		Mixed media product
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 10 Inches (US) Width: 12.5 Inches (US) Thickness: 2 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 6.55 Pounds (US)
Series		General Military