Nicholas J. Saunders is Lecturer in Material Culture at University College London, and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Academy.
"'Through his most thorough research, the author has almost single-handedly focused the attention of many collectors and curators to the importance of trench art in just the last few years.'James Brazier, Stand To! The Journal Of The Western Front Association""Nicholas J. Saunders is the first person to present this previously disregarded aspect of material culture for academic study. The fruits of his research make compelling reading for anthropologists, historians and curators alike.""Paul Cornish, Imperial War Museum 'Saunders has a unique ability to mix anthropology, the study of material culture and of all kinds of traces, and to understand the main questions at the heart of the Great War. He helps us to understand not only the First World War but also the entire scope of violence and suffering in the modern world.' Annette Becker, University Paris-X/Nanterre 'With this work Saunders has achieved one of the holy grails of research: indentifying and developing a subject which has received little if any serious attention from academics ... this is an excellent piece of work and should set the standard for further work in this area from a variety of perspectives.' A.B. Graves, Assemblage"