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Trench Warfare : Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War - Bob Carruthers

Trench Warfare

Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War

By: Bob Carruthers

Paperback | 1 November 2015

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This powerful collection, depicting the grim events of trench warfare, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humourists. The result is a stunning and vivid graphic record of life and death in the trenches during the Great War, as reported to contemporary audiences at a time when the events of the Great War were still unfolding. During the Great War artists and illustrators produced a highly accurate visual record of the fleeting moments the bulky cameras couldn't reproduce. These works form a body of war reportage that are as valid as the written word. Today, the work of the combat illustrators and the official war artists from the Great War era is overlooked by historians in favour of photographs, but these illustrations are nonetheless important, as they provide a contemporary record of hand-to-hand fighting, trench raids, aerial dogfights, sea battles, desperate last stands, night actions and cavalry charges. AUTHOR: Bob Carruthers is an Emmy Award winning author and historian, who has written extensively on the Great War. A graduate of Edinburgh University, Bob is the author of a number of military history titles including the Amazon best seller The Wehrmacht in Russia. SELLING POINTS: . Primary source engravings, drawings and paintings. . Includes artists, illustrators and propagandists. . Overview of the war at sea in art and illustration. . Official and unofficial sources. 100 illustrations
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"Profusely illustrated in black-and-white, "Trench Warfare: Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War" is an inherently fascinating and informative volume from cover to cover, making it a impressively unique, enduringly valuable, core addition to personal, community, college, and university library 20th Century Military History collections in general, and World War I supplemental studies reading lists in particular."-- "Midwest Book Review"

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