In Flanders Field: The War from the Air (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

I received an email from Amazon UK about some WWI photographic books and this one recently published by Yale should be of interest, at least to Al. Author is Birger Stichelbaut.

Others are The Great War Illustrated 1914: Archive and Color Photographs of WWI by Roni Wilkinson, Shots from the Front: The British Soldier 1914-1918 by Richard Holmes, Postcards from the Trenches: Images from the First World War by Andrew Roberts and Silent Fields: Memorial Sites of the Great War by Bart Heirweg.

 

[lancer]

I received an email from Amazon UK about some WWI photographic books and this one recently published by Yale should be of interest, at least to Al. Author is Birger Stichelbaut.

Others are The Great War Illustrated 1914: Archive and Color Photographs of WWI by Roni Wilkinson, Shots from the Front: The British Soldier 1914-1918 by Richard Holmes, Postcards from the Trenches: Images from the First World War by Andrew Roberts and Silent Fields: Memorial Sites of the Great War by Bart Heirweg.

Thanks for thinking of me, Brad. I'll look these up. The aerial photos should be of great interest. -- Al

 

[jazzeum]

No problem Al. The book is available in the UK but not yet in the US. Publication date is March 4.

The following is from Yale University Press.

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Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, artillery batteries, bunkers, railway lines, airfields, medical evacuation routes, and more. They reveal the expanding war in Flanders Fields as the hostilities spread, kilometer by kilometer, devastating the environment and resulting in the complete destruction of the landscape at the front.


This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of World War I and the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents, and photos taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to World War I history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before.

 

[Rob]

No problem Al. The book is available in the UK but not yet in the US. Publication date is March 4.

The following is from Yale University Press.

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Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, artillery batteries, bunkers, railway lines, airfields, medical evacuation routes, and more. They reveal the expanding war in Flanders Fields as the hostilities spread, kilometer by kilometer, devastating the environment and resulting in the complete destruction of the landscape at the front.


This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of World War I and the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents, and photos taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to World War I history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before.

Sounds excellent Brad, thanks for the heads up. My birthday list grows longer by the day!. My wife is truly horrified by the amount of WW1 books coming this year^&grin:wink2:

Rob

 

[lancer]

Sounds excellent Brad, thanks for the heads up. My birthday list grows longer by the day!. My wife is truly horrified by the amount of WW1 books coming this year^&grin:wink2:

Rob

^&grin My wife has no clue. Instead, it is I and my very limited wallet that are horrified, and yet, somehow thrilled like a little boy given the keys to the candy shop. I'm betting just about all of my purchasing over the next few years will be WW1 related, be it books or TS. I'm as happy as a pig in poo.^&grin -- Al

 

[Rob]

^&grin My wife has no clue. Instead, it is I and my very limited wallet that are horrified, and yet, somehow thrilled like a little boy given the keys to the candy shop. I'm betting just about all of my purchasing over the next few years will be WW1 related, be it books or TS. I'm as happy as a pig in poo.^&grin -- Al

^&grin^&grin

Couldn't agree more Al! My Amazon wish list is assuming Chinese telephone directory proportions {sm4}

And as for TS's, First Legion Jerries, Britain's/JJ Tommies , TG French....and we don't even know where K&C are heading yet:salute::

Extra pig extra poo Al !! :salute::

Rob