Eminent historian Richard Holmes brings together a collection of over 200 photographs from The Great War, many taken by ordinary soldiers. Photographs can speak to us so much more than words sometimes and in this book they really bring home the reality of war. A moving and fascinating insight in to what those times were like.
A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy', of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War.
| Primary Genre | History |
A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy', of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War.Richard Holmes, one of Britain's best-known military historians (and President of the British Commission of Military History), has selected over 200 photographs taken for the most part by officers and men rather than by official photographers - mostly unfamiliar ones located in archive collections, regimental museums and private sources.The book will deal with the whole of the British Army's experience of the First World War - Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and so on - and not just on the Western Front. The photographs will be grouped thematically as extended picture essays; topics include the pre-war army and mobilisation of 1914; the contribution made by nurses; medical treatment and the wounded; infantrymen and their weapons; the campaign in Mesopotamia and more.Like 'Tommy', the book is about people rather than things, about the human experience of war rather than its strategy or tactics, and at least as much about the everyday or commonplace - a latrine here or a plate of bully beef there - as about the lofty or portentous.
Shots from the Front features in the following genres: History, History and Archaeology
Paperback, Hardback. Not Available.
Shots from the Front was written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperPress an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Shots from the Front has 240 pages
