The Great War

A Photographic Narrative

The Imperial War Museum

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English

Jonathan Cape
01 October 2013

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; First World War

For the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this astonishing book collects over five hundred pictures and rarely seen material from the archive of the Imperial War Museum.

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

By: The Imperial War Museum
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 295mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 3.263kg
ISBN: 9780224096553
ISBN 10: 0224096559
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 01 October 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 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 *