The Great War Illustrated 1914: Archive and Colour by William Langford

By William Langford

First of a chain of 5 titles in an effort to conceal every year of the warfare graphically. numerous millions of images have been taken via photographers on each side throughout the First global struggle. those photos seemed within the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. a few illustrations went directly to develop into a part of publish conflict data and feature seemed, and proceed to seem, in present-day courses and television documentary programmes – many didn't. the nice conflict Illustrated sequence, starting with the 12 months 1914, will contain in its pages many hardly visible photos with person numbers allotted and to that end they are going to be lodged with the Taylor Library Archive to be used by way of editors and authors.

Gt warfare Illustrated 1914 covers the outbreak of hostilities, the early battles, the struggle at sea, forming of the nice trench line stretching from the coast to the Swiss border and ends with the yuletide truce. a few photos should be widely used – many should be obvious for the 1st time by means of a brand new iteration attracted to the months that modified the area for ever.

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