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Paul Fox is Principal Research Associate in Cultural Property Protection at Newcastle University, UK, and is Secretary of the UK Committee of the Blue Shield, committed to the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict. He has extensive military experience delivering intelligence support to operational activities across the spectrum of conflict.
This is an impeccably researched and original approach to the study of armed conflict and its mediation in visual culture. Paul Fox has constructed a fascinating exploration of how warring soldiers were represented in German cultural production between 1871 and 1933. Drawing on a mass of evidence and some remarkable visual material, the book reveals how conservative attitudes were shaped in Germany after defeat in the First World War and draws some compelling conclusions on the link between martial might and the visualisation of national identity. * Paul Gough, Pro Vice-Chancellor & Vice-President, RMIT University, Australia * The first major study of the patriotic imagery of war in modern Germany, this book is a substantial addition to war and conflict studies, art history and visual culture. Through close analysis of a fascinating and largely neglected visual archive, Fox explores the ideological investments, rhetorical forms, and bodily/perceptual habits of German militarism. In the process, he makes a compelling case for the value of art historical methods and skills to military and social histories of war. * Suzannah Biernoff, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *
